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Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool)
Delaware’s coronavirus numbers are declining as the vaccine distribution presents what ChristianaCare CEO Janice Nevin calls the “proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.”
After peaking at nearly 500 hospitalizations in early January, 332 patients were being treated for coronavirus in Delaware hospitals as of Feb. 2. New hospital admissions were down to 36 on Tuesday, well below a high of 90 new patients per day on Jan. 8.