America’s first vaccinated nurse receives second dose of vaccine
By AFP
06 January 2021 |
9:00 am
"The message is still that of hope... I feel like I've completed kind of the marathon - I've closed the loop," says critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after receiving her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a New York hospital. Lindsay was the first American to receive a Covid-19 vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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