New York, United States.
Sandra Lindsay, la New York nurse who was the first person vaccinated against the covid-19 a United States, recibió this Monday the second dose of the product, three weeks after the original injection.
“The last ones 21 dayss have been quite busys, educating, inspiring and encouraging people to trust science, to be informed and vaccinate “, Lindsay told a news conference after the vaccination.
The 52-year-old woman, who is head of nursing of the service of intensive surveillance from’ Jewish hospital medical center, he claimed to have felt well after the first puncture and not to have noticed any difference in his health.
Lindsay stressed that despite feeling protected thanks to the vacuna, will continue to adopt all precautionary measures to avoid the coronavirus spread and urged everyone to do the same.
The nurse made history last December 14 by becoming the first American vaccinated against the covid-19, mis beyond the people who participated in the clinical trials.
Lindsay received the vaccine developed by the companies Pfizer and BioNTech on the first day of the massive vaccination campaign launched in United States, which is also using and the manufactured vaccine for biotechnology Modern.
In the first round of vaccinations, the effort is focusing on hospitals and in the nursing homesBut the process is not as fast as the authorities expected.
In fact, this Monday the governor dand New York, Andrew Cuomo, Announced that state hospitals will face fines andn a matter of a week if they do not expedite their vaccination.
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en New York, as he said Cuomo, 46 percent of the doses received have been used so far, a percentage that is still lower than the public hospital network of the Big Apple.
Michael Dowling, president and CEO of the Northwell Health Group, which owns the hospital where Lindsay works, explained that efforts are being made to expand the vaccination process to ensure that every week all vaccines received.
Dowling, who said Northwell has vaccinated more than 26,000 people, he stressed that some patience is needed as hospitals are carrying out this process as they continue with their normal activities and are facing the rise of covid-19 cases. EFE