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Nurses and doctors celebrate Covid injections
Nurses with stickers and dancing doctors are the face of the Covid-19 vaccine launch in the US.
Healthcare workers across the country are taking to social media to show they got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with many using the hashtag #IGotTheShot. They are among the first to receive the vaccine outside of clinical trials after regulators cleared it for emergency use. Another photo of Moderna started rolling out this week.
Methodist Healthcare in Memphis, Tennessee, posted a video on Twitter of workers in uniform dancing to the song “My Shot,” from the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” In New York City, the department of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital created a TikTok of employees vaccinated with the LMFAO song “Shots” featuring Lil Jon.
The goal: to inspire confidence in vaccines that some Americans worry may have been accelerated in production at a time when they are online Conspiracy theories are swirling, incorrectly asserting that the shots will alter people’s DNA or come embedded with microchips, among other falsehoods.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, receives the Moderna Inc. Covid-19 vaccine.
Photographer: Patrick Semansky / Associated Press
Various surveys have shown different results on how many Americans are willing to receive one of the vaccines. However, a Gallup poll conducted in late November, after initial safety results for the Pfizer vaccine were released, found that about two-thirds of Americans said they were willing to get vaccinated.
Minal Ahson, a doctor who has treated Covid-19 patients at Tampa General Hospital since March, was one of the skeptics. But trusted colleagues who told you how the vaccine Messenger RNA technology was years in development before it was used against Covid-19.
At the end, She decided to trust science and received her first injection from Pfizer last Tuesday. The second will arrive 21 days later. He said it felt “historic.”
If anyone knows “I’ve done it and I’m fine, maybe one more person is more likely to get vaccinated or share my story with a doubting family member,” he said.
Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease physician, received the Moderna vaccine Tuesday at an event streamed online from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He was joined by Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and NIH Director Francis Collins, along with six frontline healthcare workers. “What we are seeing now is the culmination of years of research,” Fauci said.
Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease doctor at the Medical University of South Carolina, posted updates on Twitter about how she was feeling after receiving the vaccine. On the first day, she felt pain in her arm, which she explained as a good feeling because it indicated that the vaccine was working. Overall, he said, it felt great. On the second day, she felt great again and said that the pain in her neck from looking at her computer screen hurt more than the slight tenderness in her arm.
“I am very hopeful if we are transparent with the public and our patients about why we are getting it and any side effects we have, ”Kuppalli said. “It will make the public and patients more confident in the vaccine, and they will want to receive it.”Angelica LaVito
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