ALONG WITH HER BROTHER GARFIELD…JAMAICAN NURSE SANDRA LINDSAY, THE FIRST PERSON TO GET COVID-19 VACCINE IN THE USA, HAVE GRADUATED WITH THEIR PhDS!

Attentive brother Garfield Lindsay adjusts sister Sandra Lindsay’s graduation hat ahead of their graduation ceremony at the AT Still University, Arizona.—

Smithsonian Museum cementing Sandra Lindsay’s place in history—

Refusing to be distracted by her overnight fame in becoming the first person in the United States to take the COVID-19 vaccine, Clarendon-born Jamaican critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay has received her PhD in health sciences at the century-old AT Still University in Arizona.

The event was flavored even more by the rare sight of her older brother, Garfield Lindsay, a respiratory therapist in Maryland, walking across a makeshift graduation stage moments after Lindsay, also to receive his PhD in health sciences — the two flying the Jamaican flag with unfettered pride.

Sandra and Garfield Lindsay were featured in a recent joint interview on Saint International’s head honcho Deiwght Peters’ hit celebrity show, Rolling With Deiwght Peters, aired Sundays on Television Jamaica (TVJ).

In earlier interviews with US media, Sandra, who already has a master’s degree in nursing, as well as an MBA, said she pursued the doctorate in health sciences, majoring in global health, leadership, and organizational behavior, in order to focus on solving some of “the bigger, systemic issues that make black and Latino people more susceptible to chronic health conditions”.

The US Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is ensuring Sandra Lindsay’s place in history is cemented by acquiring the empty Pfizer-BioNtech vial from which she received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine administered in the US.

The following is the edited text of Deiwght Peters’ interview with the brother and sister duo.

Sandra Lindsey and her older brother, Garfield, are as close as you could get a brother and sister pair. The two grew up with their beloved paternal grandmother in Palmer’s Cross, Clarendon. A teacher by profession, she instilled in them the priceless and life-changing value of education which inspired their passion for learning.