New York, United States.
Sandra Lindsay, the New York nurse what was the first person vaccinated against COVID-19 in United States, rreceived the second dose of the product, three weeks after that original injection.
“The last 21 dayss han sido bastante occupieds, educate, inspire and encourage people to trust science, be informed and get vaccinated “, Lindsay said at a press conference after completing the vaccination.
The 52-year-old woman who es head of nursing of service from intensive care of the hospital Jewish Medical Center, He claimed to have felt fine after the first flat tire and not noticed any difference in his health.
Lindsay insisted that despite feeling protected Thanks to vacuafter, everything will continue to adopt safety precautions avoid spread of the coronavirus and urged everyone to do the same.
The nurse wrote history through the first American vaccinated against covid-19, mBeyond the people who participated in the clinical trials.
Lindsay received the vaccine developed by the companies Pfizer and BioNTech on the first day of the massive vaccination campaign in U.S, which also all the manufactured vaccine through biotechnology Modern.
In the first round of vaccination, the effort is focused on hospitals And in the nursing homes, but the process is not proceeding as quickly as the authorities expected.
In fact, the governor de New York, Andrew Cuomoannounced that state hospitals gets fines andn a matter of a week if they don’t speed up your vaccination.
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In NY, he said Cuomo, To date, 46 percent of doses received have been used, a percentage even lower in the Big Apple’s public hospital network.
Michael Dowling, the president and CEO of the Northwell Health group, which owns the hospital where Lindsay works, explained that efforts are underway to vaccination process to make sure that every week all receive vaccinations.
Dowling, who said Northwell has more than vaccinated 26,000 people, He stressed the need to have a little patience as hospitals carry out this process while continuing their normal activities and dealing with the increase in covid-19 cases. EFE