Vial from the first doses of FDA authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered in the United States
date: label: date made
content: 2020
name: label: Associated Name
content: Lindsay, Sandra Leisa
notes: 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. This empty vial from Lindsay's first dose of vaccine (2021.0008.06) and a set of materials from her second dose, administered on January 4, 2022 (2021.0008.09), 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: 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: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
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: 2021.0008.06
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0008.06
label: accession number
content: 2021.0008
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: vaccine, COVID-19
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 1.5875 cm