NEW YORK – The first New Yorker received a COVID vaccine on Monday, providing a moment of hope for a state that has been the epicenter of the worst health crisis in modern memory.
ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay received the shot at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens.
“This vaccine is exciting because I believe this is the weapon that will end the war,” Gov. Cuomo said at a press conference connected to a live feed of the injection. “It’s the beginning of the last chapter of the book but now we just have to do it.”
With that, Dr. Michelle Chester administered the shot to Lindsay, who said, “I feel great” at the end of the quick process.
“It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine,” she said.
In the first round of distributions, the Empire State was expecting to receive 170,000 doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer and German firm BioNTech, with 72,000 reserved for the Big Apple.
On Sunday, Pfizer began shipping doses of the vaccine throughout the country, kicking off the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history.
