Mexico City Nurse Receives Country’s First COVID-19 Vaccine, Calls It 'The Best Gift'
Government of Mexico
María Irene Ramírez, head of nursing at a Mexico City intensive care unit, was the first person to receive the vaccine on Christmas Eve.
“Does it hurt?” Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s prevention and health promotion sub secretary, asked nurse María Irene Ramírez.
“A little bit,” the country’s first vaccine recipient and head of nursing at a Mexico City intensive care unit replied.
“The truth is, it’s the best gift I could have received in 2020,” she said of her inoculation.
Nearly 3,000 other health professionals were expected to be inoculated with Pfizer’s vaccine Christmas Eve, according to a government release. Mexico hopes to have 1.4 million doses for health workers, who are prioritized in the first round, in January.
