Incoming president Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on live television on Monday.
“There's nothing to worry about,” Biden said after receiving the injection, joining various U.S. government officials who have been inoculated. At 78, Biden is in the age group at greatest risk for complications from coronavirus.
Referring to Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development program, Biden commented that President Trump “deserves some credit for getting this off the ground.”
Trump has not received a vaccine but was himself hospitalized with coronavirus in October. Vice President Mike Pence, 61, received the vaccine on Friday. Pence said that he was taking the vaccine on television “to assure the American people that while we cut red tape, we cut no corners” regarding the safety of the injection.
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