'Healing is coming': US health workers start getting vaccine

Dec 15, 20200

Mark Lennihan, Associated Press count

Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in New York City.

Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths.

"Relieved," proclaimed critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after becoming one of the first to be inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. "I feel like healing is coming."

With a countdown of "3-2-1," workers at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center gave initial injections to applause.

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