NY Nurse Is First American to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., on Dec. 14, 2020. Mark Lennihan/Pool via Reuters

Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, on Dec. 14 was the first American to receive a new COVID-19 vaccine.

“It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine,” she said.