IT BEGINS: NYC Nurse Becomes First American To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

A critical care nurse in Queens, New York, has become the first person in the United States to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Sandra Lindsay, who has been on the frontline treating COVID-19 patients, is a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She was vaccinated on-camera at the hospital as Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo looked on via livestream, the New York Post reported on Monday.

“It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine,” Lindsay said just after she took the shot. “I am feeling well. I would like to thank all the front line workers. I feel hopeful. I feel relieved.”

Applause broke out in the room after Lindsay was innoculated.

The nation’s first shot came the day after the first shipment of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine — given emergency approval in a landmark Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision late Friday — left a Michigan manufacturing plant.

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