Set of materials used in preparing and administering second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Sandra Lindsay
date: label: date made
content: 2020
name: label: referenced
content: Lindsay, Sandra Leisa
notes: label: Description
content: Set of materials used in preparing and administering second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Sandra Lindsay. Set includes: a diluent vial (LOT 6022720, EXP 09/02); an empty vaccine vial (LOT EL0142) with white and red adhesive sticker with handwritten date 1/4/21; and a colorless plastic B-D syringe with black markings, in plastic and paper packaging (packaging is open).
label: Description
content: On December 14, 2020, Sandra Lindsay, RN, director of nursing for critical care at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, became the first person in the United States to receive the FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccine. Following this event, Northwell Health donated material to the Smithsonian connected to the initial vaccination and vaccine roll-out. The empty vial from Lindsay's first dose of vaccine (2021.0008.06) and this set of materials from her second dose, administered on January 4, 2022, were included in this donation. Lindsay’s scrubs and socks (see also 2021.0008.05.1, 2021.0008.05.2, and 2021.0008.05.3), ID badge (see 2021.0008.03), and vaccination record card (see 2021.0008.04) were also included in the donation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Vaccination
label: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
label: associated subject
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: associated subject
content: Public Health
label: associated subject
content: 2019-nCoV disease
label: associated subject
content: Disease prevention
label: associated subject
content: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by Northwell Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0008.09
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0008.09
label: accession number
content: 2021.0008
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: vaccine, COVID-19, supplies
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: vaccine vial: 1 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: diluent vial: 1 5/8 in x 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 1.5875 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: syringe: 7 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 19.05 cm x 4.1275 cm x 1.905 cm