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New York nurse receives first Covid vaccine in US
Sandra Lindsay(left), a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York.
Photo credit: Mark Lennihan | AFP
A nurse in New York became the first person in the United States to receive the coronavirus vaccine Monday.
Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, received the Pfizer-BioNTech shot live on television shortly before 9:30 am (1430 GMT).