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'Huge sense of relief': critical care nurse believed to be first in US to get Covid vaccine

Guardian, 15 Dec 2020
An intensive care unit nurse is believed to have become the first person in the US to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Monday. Sandra Lindsay, who has treated some of the sickest coronavirus patients for months, was given the vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in the New York City borough of Queens, an early epicenter of the country's outbreak, receiving applause on a livestream with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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