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‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: America’s nurses share their hope and relief as first colleague gets COVID-19 vaccine

Dec 18, 2020

More than 270,000 health-care workers contracted COVID-19 and 915 have died as of mid-December, according to the CDC Daniel McCarthy watched a Queens, N.Y. nurse’s televised COVID-19 vaccination Monday to become the first New Yorker with the vaccine and among the earliest ranks with the shot. One emotion welled inside McCarthy: Relief. “The vaccine sends the message we are gaining control...