Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is being vaccinated with the Covit-19 vaccine by Dr. Michael Chester on Monday morning in Queens, New York.
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Vaccines against the corona virus began Monday morning in the United States, with health workers in New York being given the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccines were launched on the day the United States reached 300,000 deaths from COVID-19.
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval to pharmaceutical company Pfizer late Friday to distribute its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azhar is expected to be at George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC this afternoon as the hospital’s five health workers receive the dosage of the vaccine in a ceremonial “kickup” for the national campaign to end the epidemic. , According to The Washington Post.
Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, became the first recipient of the vaccine outside of clinical trials in New York – and possibly in the United States. New York government Andrew Cuomo and the media saw the vaccine just after 9:20 a.m. local time.
“I feel like I’m healing,” Lindsay said after receiving the vaccine. “I hope this marks the beginning of the end of the most painful time in our history.”
President Donald Trump Celebrated the message with a tweet, “The first vaccine is being administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations World!”
The first vaccine is administered. Congratulations America! Congratulations world!
– Donald J. Trump (realDonaldTrump) December 14, 2020
With more than 330 million people in the United States, not everyone can get the two-dose vaccine immediately. Priority will be given to health workers, as well as those at high risk for serious illnesses due to age, basic conditions or occupation. Pfizer expects to produce 50 million vaccines in 2020 and 1.3 billion in 2021.
Experts say that until COVID-19 vaccines become widely available in the United States, they will not be available until spring or summer, and people should continue to go Wear masks, Social distance and take other precautionary measures against the virus.