New York intensive care nurse is first American to get Pfizer Covid vaccine LIVE during stream with Andrew Cuomo

AN intensive care nurse in New York City became one of the first Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Monday morning, marking a major breakthrough in the US fight against the ongoing pandemic.

RN Sandra Lindsey received the jab at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens just before 9:30am as New York Gov Andrew Cuomo looked on during a live stream.

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An intensive care nurse has become one of the first Americans to receive Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine[/caption]

Lindsey is the director of critical care at the hospital and is the first person in the state to receive the Covid shot, according to ABC 7 New York.

President Donald Trump praised the development on Twitter.

“Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD!” he tweeted moments after Lindsey received the shot.

Both Cuomo and Lindsey clapped and cheered after she was vaccinated, with the governor noting that she remained motionless as the shot was being administered.

“It didn’t feel any different than with any other vaccine,” the doctor told him via live stream.

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RN Sandra Lindsey is the first person in the state to get the shot[/caption]

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The RN received the vaccine at Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens, where she’s director of the hospital’s critical care[/caption]

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Lindsey celebrated with applause and cheers once the shot was administered[/caption]

The first shipment of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine arrived early Monday morning in New York state, and LIJ is one of 44 New York City hospitals where the shots will be stored, the news station reported.

Pfizer, which is based in the Empire State, is shipping their vaccine from Michigan in dry ice.

Once hospitals receive the shots, they have just 90 seconds to unpack it and transfer the medicine to special ultra-cold freezers.

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The New York hospital is one of 44 in the state that will receive doses of the vaccine, which was shipped from Michigan[/caption]

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President Trump announced on Saturday that the Pfizer vaccine would arrive in states around the country on Monday[/caption]

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The elderly and frontline workers will be among the first to get the jab, Trump said [/caption]

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The vaccine was shipped in dry ice and must be transferred to an ultra-cold freezer within 90 seconds[/caption]

Trump revealed on Saturday that Pfizer’s highly-anticipated vaccine would begin arriving in states on Monday, just days after the country logged its most fatal day since the start of the pandemic nine months ago.

The president said he expected the first shots to be given out within 24 hours of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the biotech company’s Covid jab on Friday night.

During an announcement about the approval on Friday night, Trump said that shipments will be heading out to “every state and zip code” in the country.

“The governors decide where the vaccines will go in their state, and who will get them first,” he said.

“We want our senior citizens, health care workers and first responders to be first in line.”

The positive news came as the US hit 232,105 on Friday and a record-high 108,044 Covid-related hospitalizations.

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More than 299,000 Americans have died from Covid[/caption]