First in line for COVID vaccine? Some U.S. health-care workers say no

Diana Torres is a nurse at a Manhattan hospital who saw several of her co-workers die of the novel coronavirus this spring.

She is particularly suspicious of vaccines rushed for approval under the Trump administration, which she says has handled the entire pandemic like “some sort of joke.”

“This is a vaccine that was developed in less than a year and approved under the same administration and government agencies that allowed the virus to spread like a wildfire,” Torres said.

“They didn’t have enough time and people to study the vaccine,” she said.

“This time around I will pass and watch how it unfolds.”