Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at a Queens hospital, was the first person in the United States to be vaccinated. She wanted to “inspire people who look like me.”
Source: New York Times
Sandra Lindsay, the First to Be Vaccinated, Hopes to Persuade Skeptics
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