Published 06:18 IST, December 19th 2020
Healthcare workers dance in joy as vaccines arrive in US | Watch here
With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccine, thousands of Americans are now celebrating a possible escape from the destruction that has shadowed the world in 2020.
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With arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, thousands of Americans are w celebrating a possible escape from destruction that has showed world for months. A video clip of one such group has surfaced online and shows healthcare workers' friends dancing to cheer vaccine distributors upon arrival of Pfizer/BioNTech jabs. A video of gig was shared online by Kate Walsh, President of Boston Medical Centre, and is w spreing joy across internet.
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"Teams of people working to safely and equitably distribute vaccines to ir front line colleagues getting cheered on by ir friends celebrating arrival of vaccines! A great day, a great place,” Walsh wrote while sharing clip. half minute-long clip features healthcare workers and ir or masked friends, most of m donning a hazmat suit performing a co-ordinated dance as music plays.
Since shared, clip has racked over 4.3 million views and a myri amount of comments. While most of people have hailed vaccine and thanked frontline workers, many ors took opportunity to question if healthcare workers would take jab.
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Mass vaccinations
iculation formally started on December 14 and a critical care nurse, Sandra Lindsay, was first person in New York and among first people in United States to get a shot of coronavirus vaccine. As dely virus has been killing people of colour at disproportionate rates, Lindsay, being a black woman, was er to prove shot’s safety to those still hesitant about being vaccinated. While speaking to Washington Post, her bror, Garfield Lindsay, revealed that his sister is passionate about people’s health and for her to be an example in anyway amid pandemic, is "meaningful" to her.
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Meanwhile, US Health and Human Services anunced in a statement that Trump ministration has doubled order of total vaccine shots it initially committed to purchasing from pharmaceutical company Moderna Inc. in an order worth $1.65 billion to fight pandemic.
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06:18 IST, December 19th 2020