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Women health care and hospital workers have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. Now, they’re also some of the first to receive the vaccine in the United States.

Women health care and hospital workers have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. Now, they’re also some of the first to receive the vaccine in the United States.

  1. 15 Dec 2020

    🧵 New: The women went first. An analysis by The 19th shows about two-thirds of those who were the first or among the first recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine in the 39 states that had inoculated workers as of Tuesday afternoon were women.

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  2. 15 Dec 2020

    2/ More than 75 percent of health care workers fighting the coronavirus are women — many of them Black and Latina, according to an analysis by .

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  3. 15 Dec 2020

    3/ It’s no coincidence, then, that the first vaccine given in the United States went to Sandra Lindsay, a Black nurse at a New York hospital. It was administered by Dr. Michelle Chester, also a Black woman. It conjured a powerful message.

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    BREAKING: Critical care nurse in New York is among first in US to receive a coronavirus vaccine: "We all need to do our parts to put an end to the pandemic."
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  4. 15 Dec 2020

    4/ Dr. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah carried the image of Lindsay with her when she became one of the first people to be vaccinated in Pennsylvania. As she sat ready to receive the vaccine, the Black mother of two thought of her biracial daughters.

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  5. 15 Dec 2020

    5/ Distrust in the institution of medicine has historical connections for the Black community, dating back most prominently to the Tuskegee syphilis study conducted from 1932 to 1972.

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  6. 15 Dec 2020

    6/ Seeing women of color receiving the vaccine is an important step toward making more people feel comfortable receiving it, too. From : — Only 42% of Black Americans said they would get vaccinated — 63% of Latinx people — 83% of English-speaking Asian Americans

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  7. 15 Dec 2020

    7/ Non-medical hospital staff were also among the first to be vaccinated. Teresa Mata, an environment services worker who cleans rooms in the emergency department at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, was the first in Texas to receive the vaccine on Monday.

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  8. 15 Dec 2020

    8/ Getting to this moment symbolizes “relief and understanding that the end is closer than we thought,” Dr. Marina Del Rios, the first to be vaccinated in Illinois, said. From and :

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  9. 14 Dec 2020

    BREAKING: Critical care nurse in New York is among first in US to receive a coronavirus vaccine: "We all need to do our parts to put an end to the pandemic."

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  10. 14 Dec 2020

    An ICU nurse working with the sickest patients, she bore witness to the worst of covid-19's ravages. Now, Sandra Lindsay - a black woman, an immigrant, and the first person in the US to be vaccinated - is the face of what's best about people.

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  11. 14 Dec 2020

    Sandra Lindsay, who has treated patients in New York City throughout the pandemic, said that she hoped her public vaccination would instill confidence in New Yorkers that the shots were safe.

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  12. 14 Dec 2020

    “Because of lingering skepticism about the vaccine...Ms. Lindsay...said she wanted to lead by example — particularly as a Black woman who understands the legacy of unequal and racist medical treatment and experimentation on people of color.”

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  13. 15 Dec 2020

    🇺🇸🦠💉 Teresa Mata, an environment services worker at Methodist Dallas, is 1st in TX to receive 's vaccine. Mata said she got the vaccine to protect her family at home & her work family. “I love my job.”

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  14. 14 Dec 2020

    The first person in North Texas to take the Pfizer vaccine is 51-year-old Teresa Mata. She is an environmental services employee who cleans rooms in the emergency department at Methodist Dallas Medical Center.  She is a mother of four daughters.

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  15. 14 Dec 2020

    The first vaccine in North Texas. Who got it? Teresa Mata, a mother of four daughters at . She's an environmental services worker who cleans the emergency room.

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  16. 14 Dec 2020

    History made. Helen Cordova, a nurse in an intensive care unit in LA, became one of the first Californians to get vaccinated today.

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  17. 14 Dec 2020

    What a powerful image. My mom is also an ICU nurse in LA County working at a hospital that primarily serves Black & brown communities. Hope is on the horizon for the hardest hit.

    History made. Helen Cordova, a nurse in an intensive care unit in LA, became one of the first Californians to get vaccinated today.
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  18. 15 Dec 2020

    's Dr. Marina Del Rios is the first person in to be vaccinated for .

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  19. 15 Dec 2020

    HISTORIC MOMENT: Chicago’s first vaccine goes to Dr. Marina Del Rios from UI Health - one of five administered at a little after 10:40am at Loretto Hospital. ⁦⁩

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  20. 15 Dec 2020

    First vaccine in Chicago administered by Dr. Juvvadi and first vaccine recipient Dr. Del Ríos. Two women of color on the frontlines.

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  21. 15 Dec 2020

    For nine months, Maritza Beniquez, an Emergency Department nurse at , has risked her life on the front lines of our fight against . This morning, she became the first person in New Jersey to get vaccinated. Thank you, Maritza.

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  22. 15 Dec 2020

    What a historic moment this morning. A milestone for public health when Maritza Beniquez, in her words, a proud Latina American nurse hero, got the first vaccine in NJ. And was standing right beside her here at . Will never forget it.

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  23. 14 Dec 2020

    Angela Mattingly, a hospital housekeeper in Iowa, was one of the first people in the U.S. to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Monday. Mattingly has been cleaning the rooms of people with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.

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  24. 15 Dec 2020

    Howard University Hospital giving out the first COVID19 vaccine to its employees. Hospital CEO Anita Jenkins first in line setting the example for her team and the community.

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  25. 15 Dec 2020

    “Black and brown people are dying three times more than others,” said Howard University Hospital CEO Anita Jenkins. Jenkins will be vaccinated on Tuesday morning. “I’ve got a few people that said ‘if you take it I’ll take it’,” she said.

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  26. 14 Dec 2020

    TMC/UH ICU nurse Sarah Kiehl has been treating COVID patients throughout the pandemic. Today, she was our first frontline staff member to receive the vaccine. Check out her reaction!

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  27. 14 Dec 2020

    MOMENTS AGO: Truman Medical Center ICU nurse Sarah Kiehl spoke about becoming the first Kansas Citian to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.

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  28. 14 Dec 2020

    Registered nurse Hannah White, of Integris, became the first Oklahoman to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. She said the experience was “emotional,” and said she was holding back tears.

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  29. 14 Dec 2020

    I’m at home in tears watching Registered Nurse, Hannah White, become the first person in Oklahoma to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. History unfolding before our eyes. It’s emotional. I am immensely grateful for our frontline healthcare workers. |

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  30. 15 Dec 2020

    Vanessa Arroyo, a 31-year-old nurse in unit was among the first in the state to get an initial dose of the vaccine on Monday.

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  31. 14 Dec 2020

    Nurse Sherian Kwanisai just became the first person in Arkansas to receive the COVID-19 vaccine today. The Pfizer vaccines arrived in Arkansas this morning.

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  32. 15 Dec 2020

    Elisabeth Cote, a progressive care unit nurse at Bayhealth, is the first in Delaware to receive the Coronavirus vaccine.

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  33. 15 Dec 2020

    and the Delaware Division of Public Health–DPH announce the first Delaware health care worker to have received the -19 vaccine at ! Bayhealth Medical Center is the first health care system in Delaware to receive the vaccine.

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  34. 15 Dec 2020

    Debbie Ford, a nurse in New Orleans, Louisiana, was among the first in the state to receive the coronavirus vaccine: “I just feel great that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”

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  35. 14 Dec 2020

    Debbie Ford, MSN, RN, center, a chief nursing officer with , pumps her arms in the air as she reacts with happiness after receiving the first in from Dr. Mona Moghareh. Photo by Chris Granger

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  36. 15 Dec 2020

    Kayla Mitchell, 31, a registered nurse in Maine Medical Center’s COVID Intensive Care Unit receives the first vaccine on Tuesday morning from Dr. Christina DeMatteo. Staff photo from

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  37. 14 Dec 2020

    The first dose went to Shawn Hendricks, the nursing director of medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, who oversees units that care for COVID-19 patients.

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  38. 14 Dec 2020

    Nurse Shawn Hendricks was the first University of MD Medical System healthcare worker to receive the Covid-19 vaccine today. How she’s feeling physically, and emotionally — and how she’s hoping to set an example —Tonight, after the game.

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  39. 14 Dec 2020

    One of the first healthcare workers to get the vaccine at UMMS is nursing director Shawn Hendricks who says her mother spent two months recovering from covid and her brother and brother-in-law were also diagnosed. "I've seen enough death and dying," she said

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  40. 15 Dec 2020

    "Pure luck, I just happened to have the first appointment!" -10 year Minneapolis VA nurse Thera Witte got the first COVID-19 Vaccine at the VA in Minnesota. "I got cheers from my colleagues this morning."

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  41. 14 Dec 2020

    UPDATE: Dr. Aamina Akhtar, an infectious disease specialist and the chief medical officer of Mercy Hospital South, was the first to receive the vaccination at the Sappington hospital on Monday.

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  42. 14 Dec 2020

    “We have been eagerly waiting,” said Akhtar, the first in the region to get a dose. She pumped her hands in the air. Hospital staff cheered and applauded.

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  43. 14 Dec 2020

    Today, became the first hospital in Nevada to administer vaccine to front-line health workers. The first recipient: a nurse who then returned to work. Already, more than 200 doses have been given to those at high risk of exposure.

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  44. 15 Dec 2020

    New Hampshire ICU nurse Heidi Kukla received her first dose of the vaccine Tuesday, saying she volunteered to be first in the state because said she wanted to inspire others to not be afraid.

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  45. 14 Dec 2020

    UPDATE: Atrium Health's Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Katie Passaretti just became the first person in North Carolina to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

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  46. 14 Dec 2020

    67-year-old nurse receives first COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania: Watch

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  47. 15 Dec 2020

    VIDEO: Here’s Shemika Champion, a pediatric registered nurse at . She was the first person in the Lowcountry to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine!

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  48. 15 Dec 2020

    Christy Mulder, a medical intensive care unit nurse, became the first Utahn to receive a shot of the vaccine, Tuesday morning at University of Utah Hospital.

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  49. 14 Dec 2020

    HISTORIC MOMENT: Respiratory Therapist Tina Schubert became the first of 's healthcare workers to receive the Pfizer vaccine at approx. 2:30 p.m. CT!

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