It is a bittersweet moment for COVID-unit nurse Tony Chris Nnaka.
“I think I’m thinking more about my patients, the ones that were not able to get this vaccine like I’m getting now. The ones that could’ve been saved from it,” he said as he prepared to receive his vaccine.
The first Parkland employee to receive the vaccine was nurse Perla Sanchez-Perez. A mother who has worked in the COVID-unit since March.
“It’s a moment that gives us hope,” she said. “Hope to hopefully decrease the chances, the incidents, the high numbers we have within our unit and hopefully to have some kind of normality.”