Sandra Lindsay (left) a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester on Monday in the Queens borough of New York. I feel like healing is coming, New York critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay said after receiving her shot. I hope this marks the beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history.
The first people in the U.S. are receiving vaccination shots against COVID-19 on Monday, as U.S. health workers started administering the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
The first widely publicized vaccination took place in Long Island, N.Y., shortly after 9 a.m. The event was live-streamed and promoted by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said, The vaccine only works if the American people take it.
Surgeon General Jerome Adams says people still need to wear masks and socially distance after they ve been vaccinated because it doesn t prevent infection just severe illness
Surgeon General Jerome Adams appeared on GMA on Monday as the first vaccines were rolled out across the US
He said that Pfizer vaccine protects people against severe disease but not from getting infected
It means that after people have been vaccinated, they still need to be careful
The government says it ll roll out 100million vaccinations by March
But that s only a third of the country and many are unwilling to take the vaccine