{"id":260256,"date":"2020-12-14T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=260256"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T20:47:19","slug":"combatting-covid-vaccine-roll-out-begins-in-us-first-vaccination-done-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/covid-19\/combatting-covid-vaccine-roll-out-begins-in-us-first-vaccination-done-today\/","title":{"rendered":"COMBATTING COVID: Vaccine roll-out begins in US, first vaccination done today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-260257\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/US-vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/US-vaccine.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/US-vaccine-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first Covid-19 vaccination in the United States has taken place, as the country gears up for its largest ever immunization campaign, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>&#8220;I feel like healing is coming,&#8221; said New York nurse Sandra Lindsay &#8211; among the first health workers given the jab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>On Monday, as the US death toll topped 300,000, 150 hospitals across the country were to receive millions of vials of the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The US vaccination programme aims to reach 100 million people by April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Ms Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, received the vaccine live on camera. 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We&#8217;re in a pandemic and so we all need to do our part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-55305720\">Read full BBC story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Covid-19 vaccination in the United States has taken place, as the country gears up for its largest ever immunization campaign, according to the BBC. &#8220;I feel like healing is coming,&#8221; said New York nurse Sandra Lindsay &#8211; among&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":260257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,282,11,17,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-covid-19-news","category-general","category-health","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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