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Largest vaccination drive in US history begins with Pfizer's Covid-19 shots

A nurse in New York City was among the first people to receive the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Monday morning

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Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP/ PTI Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Press Trust of India New York
The biggest vaccination drive in American history got underway on Monday with a critical care nurse here becoming the first person in the US to be vaccinated for Covid-19, providing a glimmer of hope as the country nears the grim milestone of nearly 300,000 coronavirus deaths.

Frontline nurse Sandra Lindsay was administered the shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, in Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens Monday.

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said the pandemic has been horrific.

It was a modern-day battlefield and that's why the word heroes is so appreciate for what you did. The vaccine