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Nurse Sandra Lindsay receives the first vaccine in the US.▶ Click here to enlarge
“It doesn’t feel any different than getting another vaccine. I recommend that everyone get it.”
The first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, the most affected in the world by the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), was a black nurse.
Sandra Lindsey, 52, a nurse who works at Long Island Zooish Hospital in Queens, New York, received the Corona 19 vaccine from Pfizer-Bioentech at 9:30 am on the 14th (local time).
New York State and US media have revealed that Lindsay was the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, except for participants in clinical trials. It is the first case of vaccination after approval for emergency use on the 11th by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Lindsay is an immigrant born in Jamaica and raised by her grandparents. She came to the United States as an adult and, after studying nursing, worked as a nurse her entire life.
His brother Garfield Lindsay told The Washington Post that helping others has been his dream since he was 6 years old. “That’s why my younger brother, who grew up in a third world, became a nurse.” “My brother is an example of vaccination.” It is very significant to do it. “
According to WP, Lindsay is the head nurse who manages and supervises nurses in the hospital’s intensive care unit, caring for thousands of patients who battled the virus amid the corona19 pandemic in the United States that began last spring in NY.
The intensive care unit nurses, including Lindsay, were reported to have encountered numerous deaths while working 16 hours a day. Two of his relatives also died from Corona 19.
Sandra Lindsey congratulated by another nurse after the first vaccination▶ Click here to enlarge
After the vaccination, Lindsay said, “Today I feel hope and relief. I hope this is the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our country.”
He added: “I want to instill the belief that vaccines are safe for the public,” he said. “The light is visible at the end of the tunnel, but we must continue to wear masks and social distancing.”
Local media is interpreting that the minority damage to Corona 19 was severe and that Lindsay, a black woman and an immigrant on medical staff, was chosen as the first vaccine in the United States.
In particular, WP analyzed that Lindsay, a black woman who wanted to show confidence to those who were reluctant to get vaccinated, was the right person for the ‘face’ of vaccination because the death rate for people of color was so much higher.
Lindsey himself said in an interview after the vaccination that vaccinating himself, a black woman, would send an important message to Americans who distrust the health care system. This is because mistrust of minorities is high due to discriminatory and unethical medical practices such as in vivo syphilis experiments performed on black people in the past.
“Unfortunately, due to past history, minorities like me are reluctant to get vaccinated,” he said. “It’s useless if only a few get vaccinated. I believe in science,” he repeatedly urged.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also focused on increasing the reliability of the vaccine, calling Lindsay and other medical workers “heroes” just before the first vaccination and saying, “I think this vaccine will be a weapon to put on. end the war. “
America’s choice on this day is in contrast to the first vaccination of a 90-year-old white grandmother in the UK, where the world’s first Pfizer vaccination began on the 8th.
In the United States, in addition to medical personnel, residents of long-term nursing facilities are also subject to emergency use of the vaccine, but middle-aged nurses, not the elderly living in nursing homes, received the vaccine First. In addition to New York, Michigan and Florida were the first doctors and nurses to receive the vaccine.
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