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You may not remember the name Sandra Lindsay, but future generations will.

The intensive care nurse received America's first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine last December

14th in Queens, New York.

As Smithsonian Magazine reports, this event marked a turning point in fighting

the pandemic that has killed more than 535,000 Americans, and it made history. Now that history

will be preserved for generations to come, the first, now empty, tiny Pfizer-Bio-N-Tec vial

has been acquired by the Smithsonian's National

Museum of American History. It will be displayed along with Lindsay's vaccination card,

her scrubs, and her hospital ID. This announcement comes as we mark the one-year anniversary

of the pandemic today. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic.

On that day, confirmed worldwide coronavirus cases stood at 125,000, with reported deaths at fewer

than 5,000. A poll conducted at the time found that 44% of Americans

considered the threat of the virus to be exaggerated. Nearly everyone, 88% predicted that fewer than

10,000 Americans would ultimately die from the disease. This morning, Johns Hopkins confirms

that more than 118 million people have been infected, more than 29 million of them in the U.S.

More than 2.6 million people have died, including more than 529,000 Americans. And nearly a quarter of all Americans,

23%, say a close friend or family member has died of the disease. Of America's 19,502 towns and

cities, only 37 have a population exceeding the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19.

On a tragic anniversary unlike any other in our nation's history, where can we turn for hope

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