“I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Nursing and Nurses”
The Vaccine Arrived in a 63-Pound Box, Packed in Dry Ice
By Gotham Rex on December 15, 2020
Inside the race to give the first shots: Hospitals around the country scrambled after waiting months for the coronavirus vaccine. Source: New York Times
Inside the Race to Offer the First Vaccinations in the United States
By Gotham Rex on December 15, 2020
Hospitals around the country scrambled to administer the first shots after waiting months for the coronavirus vaccine. Source: New York Times
Vaccine Distribution Is Underway in New York
By Gotham Rex on December 15, 2020
The first coronavirus vaccine in the country was administered in Queens. Source: New York Times
Sandra Lindsay, the First to Be Vaccinated, Hopes to Persuade Skeptics
By Gotham Rex on December 14, 2020
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
Portraits of Nurses, By the Designer Rebecca Moses
By Gotham Rex on December 7, 2020
The designer Rebecca Moses turns a quarantine art project into a gift of thanks and tribute. Source: New York Times
A Covid-19 Lesson: Some Seriously Ill Patients Can Be Treated at Home
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2020
To ease pressure on hospitals, Northwell Health brought medical workers, oxygen tanks and intravenous equipment into patients’ homes. Now Florida is taking cues. Source: New York Times