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

"It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine”

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

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