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It took a three-hour road trip, an overnight hotel stay and an untold number of sleepless nights, but she did it: On Jan. 5, Terri Lynn received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine in northern Florida.
“I was just floating after I got it,” the 65-year-old Naples resident told HuffPost.
“I feel empowered that I did something,” she continued. “I didn’t realize it until afterwards, but I’m just so proud.”
Like many of her friends and family, Lynn was eager for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, and to be eligible for the shot in her arm. After about nine months and more than 300,000 deaths in the U.S., the first batches were finally released in January light at the end of a monthslong tunnel. All of the country’s 50 states have designed their own distribution plans, some of which have gone more smoothly than others.