“You’re still fighting a battle, but you’re starting to see the horizon.”Monday’s vaccinations, the first in a staggeringly complicated national campaign, were a moment infused with hope and pain for hundreds of America’s health care workers. In Fargo, North Dakota, 155 doctors and nurses with the highest risk of exposure to the virus trickled into a repurposed veterans’ lounge where nurses waited, clustered around a few small round tables. “I feel like I didn’t just get a vaccine, I got a shot of hope. Many have spent hours after work agonising over the challenges of treating coronavirus patients. It will be months before the vaccine is available for most Americans, and many experts and leaders are bracing for a deadly winter.

Source: bd News24 December 15, 2020 03:45 UTC