For first COVID vaccine recipient and Eagle production chief, roots lead back to a small town in Jamaica
'It felt very mystical.'
Wayne Chambers was preparing to send the Dec. 15, 2020 edition of the Eagle to the printer when a woman on the front page caught his attention.
The A1 photo featured an intensive care nurse named Sandra Lindsay, her nose and mouth obscured by a surgical mask, sitting in a chair at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center while she received the country’s very first COVID-19 vaccine.
Chambers, a musician and the production chief for the Queens and Brooklyn Daily Eagles, swore he knew her.