Nurse Sandra Lindsay has advocated for vaccination in the U.S. and abroad
and making her shot possible. She also knew the shot would let her take the first step toward safely meeting her new grandson. “When I was able to take off my mask and to hug him, that little moment just meant the world to me,” she says.
In addition to treating COVID-19 patients at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Lindsay has spent much of the last year promoting vaccination in television and in-person appearances in the U.S. and Jamaica, where she was born, hoping to encourage hesitant people to receive the shots. She’s well aware that the reason her televised vaccination was so powerful for many people wasn’t just that she was first, but also that she’s a Black immigrant woman working in health care.
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