The United Nation Starts Vaccination Drive Against Covid-19 Pandemic
The United States has started its Covid-19 vaccination drive on Monday with the dosage of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, opening a new chapter in the battle against the “invisible enemy”. The United States stands as one of the worst-hit countries by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 300,000 people.
The frontline doctors and nurses were the first ones to receive the vaccine on Monday. Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care unit nurse said that she felt like the healing is coming, according to the New York Times report. She was the first health care worker to be vaccinated on Monday, in the Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in Queens.
Although the vaccine brought hope and celebration in the corridors of various nationwide medical centres and hospitals in the United States, on Monday, many health care workers said that life might not be back to normal until well within the next year.
The vaccine is monumentally different as it is developed in a record time. It is eventually expected to cure the pandemic which has cripples life across the globe and especially in the United States for almost a year now, said Lindsay.
The immunizing campaign will rapidly expand in the days to come with states beginning to include nursing homes. Federal officials are leading the effort to manufacture and distribute the vaccines that are expected to reach 20 million people who will be getting the first of the two required dosages by the end of the year.
