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Nurse gets New York’s first COVID-19 vaccine as U.S. rollout begins

Nurse gets New York’s first COVID-19 vaccine as U.S. rollout begins

JONATHAN ALLEN and GABRIELLA BORTER NEW YORK has inoculated its first healthcare worker, an intensive care unit nurse in Queens, with the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the U.S. effort to control the deadly virus. Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, was given the vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, an early epicentre of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, receiving applause on a live stream with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. "It didn't feel any different from taking any other vaccine," Lindsay said. "I feel hopeful today, relieved. I feel like healing is coming.…
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