ICYMI: Medical Workers Are First On LI To Get COVID-19 Vaccine

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in the Patchogue Patch:

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in the Patchogue Patch:

By: Jacqueline Sweet, Patch Staff

PATCHOGUE, NY— A day after the first COVID-19 vaccine in New York was administered Monday in Queens to a critical care nurse, live on television, Long Island's first jabs of the long-awaited vaccine were given. Health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic are the first in line to receive the Pfizer-manufactured vaccine.

Long Island is set to get 26,500 doses in the first allocation of the vaccine this month. Nursing home residents and staffs are the next group of residents who will be eligible, after the doctors, nurses, custodial staff, respiratory therapists and others working directly with COVID-19 patients.

Michele Guelfi of Patchogue is one of those nurses. She works in a COVID-19 unit at Southside Hosptial as a nurse practitioner. Guelfi worked through the first wave in the spring as a nurse educator at Peconic Bay Medical Center, even losing a beloved nurse colleague to the virus.

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