Another historic moment in the Vaccination drive as the United States administered first Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine to a nurse at a hospital in Connecticut on Monday. Mandy Delgado, a nurse for the Hartford Healthcare hospital was the first to receive the shot. She was administered a shot of the Moderna vaccine around 11:40 am (1640 GMT), according to a live feed of the event.
"I am excited. I feel privileged," she said after getting the shot of the vaccine against the novel coronavirus. People around her met the enthusiasm and courage with a round of applause. A few days after the Moderna vaccine became the second in the US to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the shot has been administered within a few days. The Moderna vaccine can be stored at -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit), much lower than Pfizer's vaccine which must be stored at -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit), making it easier to distribute.
"With the availability of two vaccines now for the prevention of COVID-19, the FDA has taken another crucial step in the fight against this global pandemic that is causing vast numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States each day," FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D, said in a statement and the local health authorities believe these vaccines will curb the widespread of the novel coronavirus.
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