George Copeland Jr. | 12/17/2020, 6 p.m. Dr. Audrey Roberson reacts after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday from nurse Veronica Nolden at VCU Health. Gov. Ralph S. Northam applauds in the background. Dr. Roberson, a nurse manager of the medical respiratory intensive care unit, was the first front line medical worker at VCU Health to receive the Pfizer vaccine. Photo by Kevin Morley/VCU University Relations
Dr. Audrey Roberson misses her family.
The nurse manager of VCU Healthâs Medical Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Roberson was one of the first health workers at VCU Medical Center in Downtown to care for COVID-19 patients and has been on the front lines of the efforts to address the pandemicâs spread in Virginia.