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Sandra Lindsay, the 52-year-old Jamaican-born nurse who was the first person to get the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States on December 14, is encouraging her countrymen and women to take the vaccine once it becomes available in the island.
Speaking in a 59-second video posted on the Doctors4Change JA Facebook page on the weekend, Lindsay said Jamaica does not have the resources to effectively battle the crisis like the United States.
As a result, she encouraged Jamaicans to follow the COVID-19 prevention protocols and get vaccinated once it is possible on the island. I have worked in the peak of the pandemic and mek mi tell unuh something, COVID-19 is real. It nuh normal. It nuh discriminate. Our little island that we love - Jamaica does not have the resources to battle a crisis of this magnitude like the United States does.
Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in Queens, got the shot yesterday.
Chin, a retired army medic, said at first she thought it was mandatory to get the COVID-19 vaccine to keep her job, but has learned that the hospital where she works does not make it a requirement. My brain was already prepared for this but now I have a choice, I am saying I don t know. But I am leaning towards taking it as I would rather have some sort of a barrier between myself and the patients versus out there being vulnerable, she said.
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The distribution of the first coronavirus vaccines was celebrated in the US this week as the country began to fight back against the virus that has killed more than 300,000 people, caused mass layoffs and stoked political divisions.
As intensive care nurse Sandra Lindsay rolled up her sleeve to receive a shot in New York on Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo praised healthcare “heroes” and called inoculations the “weapon that will end the war”.
But vaccination campaigns raise their own headaches.
Some fear the rich and well-connected will elbow their way to the front of the line, while others doubt the safety of vaccines that have been researched, tested and made at record-breaking speeds.
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