Northwell Health critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay made history when she was the first person in the United States to get the COVID-19 vaccine on December of 2020.
June Bacon-Bercey is the first African-American woman with a meteorology degree to do a weathercast on television.
For Lindsay, that joy of being back home in Jamaica last August, the place where she grew up, was soon peppered with fear about how the healthcare system there would cope with what was to come. "We had patients who were in the hallways," Jamaica Chief Nursing Officer Patricia Ingram-Martin said."We had patients who were in the emergency room."
Lindsay said that at the height of the Delta variant, the COVID positivity rate in Jamaica was above 50%, and the country's vaccination rate was about 22%.Northwell, with an entire distribution center on Long Island filled with supplies for fighting COVID, would soon be on board. Within 24 hours, Lindsay got her CEO on the phone to secure more than $800,000 worth of PPE and oxygen concentrators to present to her country.
Lindsay also headed to the United Nations to speak about fighting the pandemic globally. Still a self-proclaimed introvert, Lindsay never imagined any of this in her wildest dreams.
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