A lead clinical nurse in the COVID-19 unit at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center was among the first health care staff in Long Beach to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Friday, bringing hope for thousands of essential workers as the pandemic rages.
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Rolling down his left sleeve after receiving the shot, nurse Brandon Gatling said he was honored and humbled to be chosen. Gatling said he and others at Memorial have felt the strain of the pandemic, but they “continue to do what we need to do every day.”
“I’m so very excited and honestly it didn’t even bother me, it was just another vaccine,” he said. “Hopefully now that the vaccine is here we can start to move forward and look towards an end.”