Covid 19 coronavirus: A shot of hope - what the vaccine is like for frontline doctors and nurses
16 Dec, 2020 06:00 AM
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Dr. Aharon Sareli, the chief of critical care for Memorial Healthcare System, received the coronavirus vaccine at a pharmacy in Miramar, Florida on Monday. Photo / Scott McIntyre, The New York Times
Dr. Aharon Sareli, the chief of critical care for Memorial Healthcare System, received the coronavirus vaccine at a pharmacy in Miramar, Florida on Monday. Photo / Scott McIntyre, The New York Times
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By: Jack Healy, Lucy Tompkins and Audra D. S. Burch
Even as medical workers lined up for America s first shots, many of them recalled nightmarish moments from the pandemic.
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A winter storm barreled into the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeast on Wednesday and continued into Thursday with forecasters predicting up to two feet of snow in places.CreditCredit.Mark Makela/Getty Images
The fast-moving winter storm that barreled through the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday created hazardous road conditions in the affected areas.
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1. On a day of hope, a reminder of the coronavirus’s devastation.
The number of people who died from the coronavirus in the U.S. passed 300,000 today, but the day also marked a turning point for frontline health care workers as they began to receive the first clinically authorized vaccine as part of the mass vaccination program.
“I believe this is the weapon that will end the war,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said this morning, shortly before the first shot was given to Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at a Long Island hospital. Above, Dr. Sylvia Owes-Ansah, an emergency department physician in Pittsburgh, was also among the first recipients of the vaccine.