At a newly created vaccine center on the outskirts of Cardiff, the capital of Wales, there was a small but steady flow of people coming in on Tuesday morning. Most were health care workers who entered the Cardiff and Vale Therapy Center — a former gymnasium used for rehabilitation therapy — wearing masks.
Betty Spear, a retired pediatric nurse, pulled back the blue curtain from the small cubicle she was working in after having administered the vaccine to a fellow nurse.
“She just cried and said this was such an emotional day,” Ms. Spear said of her most recent patient. “Generally, I think people are extremely happy that the day is coming, that the day has come that they are getting this vaccination.”
She added: “That last lady was very emotional, I think partly because she worked on a Covid ward, so she has seen the consequences and probably the outcomes. I presume she has seen a lot.”
Ms. Spear said she herself was “slightly anxious because it’s a different area but we’ve had a lot of training over the last few days.”
Nearly all of the people vaccinated here were health care workers, and many have experienced the virus’s horrors first hand. They expressed excitement and relief that there was some hope on the horizon for an end to pandemic.
Dr. Chris Hingston, 45, who is an I.C.U. consultant at the University Hospital of Wales, said he initially felt almost guilty for being among the first to receive the shot, pointing to the nurses in Covid wards as among the most in need. But after speaking with colleagues, he decided it was important to be inoculated as soon as possible to provide wider protection for his colleagues and patients.
“From my point of view, well, I’ve no fear of it. But you know, a lot of people out there, I think, are quite worried,” he said. “I don’t feel it’s for myself necessarily, having the vaccine. It’s really for others in many ways.”
When he received his vaccine on Tuesday morning, he likened it to having the flu shot.
“I didn’t even feel it,” he said as he chatted casually with Lynne Cronin, 60, the acting lead nurse at the center who delivered the vaccine.
“You’re exactly the people we need to come through,” she said, after learning that he is an I.C.U. doctor. Ms. Cronin said it had been a huge undertaking to get the site up and running for Tuesday, just days after the vaccine received emergency approval from the British government, but she lauded the local health authorities for their work.
“It’s been a huge ask to get everybody ready to vaccinate,” she said. “We’re still trying to train people up. We needed today and the next few days to sort any teething problems.”
She said other than a few early technical hiccups in the system being used to document the vaccinations, the roll out had been smooth.
“We just need to make sure it’s safe for people, and for my staff to make sure they are comfortable,” she said.
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