New York critical care nurse among first in U.S. to receive Covid-19 vaccine
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Source: Politico
Key context: A critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center became the first New Yorker — and among the first people in the U.S. — to receive a Covid-19 vaccine Monday, one day after Pfizer’s vaccine began being shipped across the country.
Key context: Sandra Lindsay, director of patient care service for critical care at the Northwell Health facility in Queens, received the first shot of the two-dose vaccine during a live morning broadcast with New York Gov. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Northwell Health President and CEO Michael Dowling and Dr. Michelle Chester.
What’s next: Although the governor, Dowling and Lindsay all touted the new vaccine, they stressed that New Yorkers must still continue wearing masks and practicing social distancing...
New York was expected to get its first 170,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine by Monday, with another 346,000 doses of Moderna’s vaccine set to be delivered next week.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/12/14/new-york-critical-care-nurse-among-first-in-us-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine-1345993
I posted this (now that my 3-day FB ban is over) to my 50+ year-old anti-vaxxer daughter this am. Along with Gov Cuomo's video of the first shot, and some historical context:
People of good will have tried to alleviate legitimate human suffering for centuries.
Mainstream media, composed of reporters of good will with families, show that science still works for human good. While humans make mistakes when trying, they still try. Though evil exists, the vast majority of the world are not all-against-all liars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
I posted it in response to our recent phone argument that's too long to go into detail (part of it was my reasoned reminder to her of her own life benefits from childhood polio immunizations), but she swears that her 15 year-old son, my only grandchild, will only receive a vaccine over her dead body, to which I answered that she will not get the final word on that. The rest from me was deserved tough talk.
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