President-elect Joe Biden publicly received the newly approved coronavirus vaccine in a nationally televised event. Biden got the first shot of the two-part Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital, which is a short drive from his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
After receiving the shot Biden said, “I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared, when it’s available, to take the vaccine. There’s nothing to worry about.”
Accompanying Biden was his wife Jill who had received her vaccination earlier the same day.
It’s been over a week now since the first doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine were administered to front line health care workers who have fought against a pandemic that’s taken nearly 320,000 American lives since the virus first swept the nation earlier this year.
The vaccine had been approved just days earlier for emergency use, and all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico soon received their first doses.
Late last week, the Moderna vaccine was approved for emergency use by the FDA.
President-elect Biden gave President Trump and his administration credit saying, “I think the administration deserves some credit for getting us off the ground with Operation Warp Speed.”
The operation is a federal program implemented by the White House to work with major drug manufacturers to produce a coronavirus vaccine.
Biden added that “this is just the beginning… It’s going to take time.” And that “in the meantime, I know I don’t want to sound like a sour note here but I hope people listen to all the experts.”
The president-elect again urged Americans to wear their masks in public and stay socially distanced during this holiday season.
“If you don’t have to travel, don’t travel,” he said. “Because we’re still in the thick of this.”
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