S past another staggering milestone.

300,000 deaths from the coronavirus with cases surging and hospital resource is stretched to the brink, last week was the deadliest in the United States since the pandemic began.

17,000 Americans died from Cove it in one week alone.

Martha Navarro and I See You nurse in Los Angeles and an interview with Reuters held back tears as she described the intense told the crisis is taking on health care workers.

I was scared your toe and he'll cover.

I cry.

There are times when I cry in the car scoop.

I'm sorry having to see my family explaining to them why Maybe I'm not emotionally ready or prepared to be sharing a dinner with them or why I'm not there with them because I have to stay here long hours.

They say they understand, but in reality, when a 16 year old needs his mother and she's not there, it's difficult, very difficult.

The vaccine is safe.

I see you.

Nurse Sandra Lindsay became one of the first Americans to receive a vaccine dose on Monday in New York City and in Washington, D.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was on hand for the inoculations of some of the first frontline workers at the George Washington University Hospital.

Dr.

Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.

Burt said that while the vaccine would provide much needed relief, Americans won't be out of the woods anytime soon.

I don't believe we're gonna be able to throw the masks away and forget about step physical separation and concrete settings for a while, probably likely until we get into the late fall and early next winter.

More than half of U.

S states have enacted new lock down restrictions, as many hospital intensive care units are nearly full.

Health care workers and nursing home residents will be the first to get the two dose vaccine regimen given three weeks apart.

Next will be essential workers, as determined by individual states and elderly people with underlying health conditions.

But Dr Fauci said, for all the progress that's been made in the battle against co vid, there is much science still doesn't understand about the virus.

There's something very strange about a virus that in most people don't barely bothers them.

And in others, it kills them.

We still don't understand why that's the case.

Right now, we need to find that out.