Joe Biden receives the coronavirus vaccine in public at a Delaware hospital
US President-elect Joe Biden has received a Covid-19 vaccine live on television to boost Americans’ confidence in the jabs.
President-elect Joe Biden received the Covid-19 vaccine in a televised appearance from a Delaware hospital in which he encouraged the public to get vaccinated.
“There’s nothing to worry about,” he said.
Mr Biden received the first of two doses after top public health officials recommended that he be fully vaccinated before his January 20 inauguration. He was joined by his wife, Jill Biden, who received the first course of the vaccine earlier in the day, his transition team said.
“We owe these folks an awful lot,” Mr Biden said of the medical professionals at Christiana Care Hospital in Newark, Delaware.
The president-elect’s inoculation came a week after the start of the first US Covid-19 vaccinations, the most significant mass-immunisation campaign since the 1950s.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is scheduled to be vaccinated next week in preparation for the new administration.
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