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US begins mass vaccinations against coronavirus with healthcare workers
The United States has begun inoculating citizens with an intensive care unit nurse in Queens among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, marking what it is hoped will be a turning point in the US effort to control the deadly virus.
Key points:
- An ICU nurse is the first person in New York to receive the Pfizer vaccine, her jab was livestreamed
- The vaccine won emergency-use approval after it was found to be 95 per cent effective
- Healthcare workers and aged care residents will be first in line for the two-dose innoculation
Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, was given the vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, an early epicentre of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak, receiving applause on a Monday…
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