848
Queens, NY, nurse Sandra Lindsay is the among the first Americans to receive a coronavirus vaccine. (Image: Twitter/@NYGovCuomo)
A Black female ICU nurse in Queens became the first New Yorker and maybe even the first American to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Monday.
Sandra Lindsay, a nurse who works at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a press briefing Monday. Lindsay received an ovation after receiving the first two shots. The nurse will receive the second shot in 21 days.
Dr. Michelle Chester, a Black woman, administered the shot.
Lindsay told reporters she was hopeful the rollout of the vaccine would be “the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our history.”
‘I was very honored to be asked to be the first;’ COVID-19 vaccines administered for first time on Staten Island
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Facebook Share
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Islanders who have worked on the front lines throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic became some of the first Americans to receive a vaccine on Monday.
Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) administered five doses of the Pfizer vaccine to its front-line staff members Dr. James Kenny; Joed Diaz, a patient care technician; Dr. Robert Wetz; ICU Nurse Rosamma Joseph; and Dr. Wassim Diab at its Ocean Breeze campus.
“I was very honored to be asked to be the first one to take it,” Kenny, an associate chair of emergency medicine with the hospital, said. “This is a game changer. We’ve been anticipating for this for so long, and when I heard the vaccine was finally available I really think we’re going to win this.”