Hear Why a Navy Nurse Volunteered to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine
Channel: U.S. Navy
Date: 2020-12-16

SAN DIEGO (Dec. 15, 2020) An interview with Lt. j.g. Catherine Senoyuit, a registered nurse assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego’s (NMCSD) emergency department, the first Sailor to receive the COVID-19 vaccine onboard NMCSD on Dec. 15. NMCSD and Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton were selected by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) COVID Task Force to receive the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine base on recommendations from the military services and U.S. Coast Guard, to support several criteria, to include anticipated supply chain requirements, such as cold and bulk storage facilities, the local population of at least 1,000 priority personnel across the military services, and sufficient medical personnel to administer vaccines and actively monitor vaccine recipients.