Nurse Receives US Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Joe Biden awards the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honor on a Jamaican-born nurse Sandra Lindsay during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Lindsay is the first in the United States to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and a first-responder in New York City.

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Sandra Lindsay is a New York critical care nurse, who served on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Biden said she was the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials and is “a prominent advocate for vaccines and mental health for health care workers.”

“If there’s any angels in Heaven, they’re all nurses, male and female,” said the US President in conferring the Medal on Lindsay in the East Room of the White House, stating that Lindsay’s vaccination card and badge are part of a Smithsonian exhibit on the coronavirus pandemic.

Lindsay was among 17 individuals who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the first recipients of America’s highest civilian honor since Biden assumed office.