美國開始新冠疫苗接種

US starts COVID-19 vaccine rollout
美國開始新冠疫苗接種

The US started its COVID-19 vaccine rollout nationwide on Monday as the death toll of the pandemic in the country topped 300,000.
12月14日，美國開始在全國範圍內接種新冠疫苗。美國因新冠大流行造成的死亡人數已超過30萬。

Shortly before 9:30 am local time, Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, was among the first people in the country to get the vaccine of American drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech.
12月14日上午9時30分許，紐約皇后區長島猶太醫療中心重症監護室護士桑德拉·琳賽最先接種疫苗，成爲全美首批新冠疫苗接種者之一。這些新冠疫苗由美國輝瑞製藥有限公司與德國生物新技術公司聯合研發。

In a video link with New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lindsay said, "I feel like healing is coming and this marks the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our history."
在與紐約州州長安德魯·科莫的視頻連線中，琳賽說：“我覺得（一切）正在癒合，這標誌着美國曆史上這段非常痛苦的時期就快要結束了。”

"I believe this is the weapon that will end the war," Cuomo said Monday morning.
當天早晨，科莫表示：“我相信這是結束抗疫之戰的武器。”

The vaccine rollout came after the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the vaccine for emergency use for Americans 16 and older on Friday.
12月11日，美國食品和藥物管理局批准了這款新冠疫苗的緊急使用授權申請，獲批的新冠疫苗被允許用於16歲及以上人羣，新冠疫苗接種隨即啓動。