Biden gets COVID-19 vaccine

HuffPost | Washington

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US President-elect Joe Biden received the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, demonstrating on television that the shot is safe and necessary to protect the country from the virus that’s already killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Biden received the first course of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital in Delaware.

The vaccine was administered by Tabe Masa, a nurse practitioner and the head of employee health services at the hospital.

“We owe these folks a lot,” Biden said. “The scientists and the people who put this together, the frontline workers, the people that were the ones that did the clinical work.” The president-elect chose to have his vaccination televised in order to instil confidence among Americans that it is safe and effective. “I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it’s available to take the vaccine,” he said on Monday. “There’s nothing to worry about. I’m looking forward to the second shot. ... This is just the beginning."