Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence receive COVID vaccine, saying it’s ‘beginning of the end’ to the pandemic, but US has ‘a ways to go’
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
Posted Dec 18, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. Karen Pence, and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams also participated.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, each received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday morning as it was aired through a livestream for the nation to watch.
The vaccine the second approved for use in the U.S. behind Pfizer and BioNTech s is Moderna s first-ever FDA authorized product. The agency s authorization kickstarts the federal government s plan to distribute roughly 5.9 million doses of Moderna s vaccine to 64 states, territories and major cities across the nation next week.
Initial doses will be limited as manufacturing ramps up, with officials predicting it will take months to immunize everyone in the U.S. who wants to be vaccinated. U.S. officials hope to vaccinate at least 20 million Americans mostly front-line health-care workers and nursing home residents by the end of the year.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Vice-President Mike Pence received his Covid-19 vaccine live on television on Friday (Dec 18), seeking to shore up public support for vaccinations as US regulators were on the cusp of approving a second vaccine for emergency use.
Pence said he “didn’t feel a thing” after he, his wife Karen Pence and Surgeon-General Jerome Adams each rolled up their sleeves and took injections from white-coated medical staff, becoming the highest-profile recipients to receive the vaccine publicly.
After US deaths from the coronavirus topped 3,000 for a third straight day, Pence called the vaccinations a sign of hope, with 20 million doses expected to be distributed nationwide before the end of December and hundreds of millions more going out in the first half of 2021.
Vice President Pence Receives COVID-19 Vaccination
Vice President Mike Pence on Friday publicly received the new COVID-19 vaccine, along with his wife and a top health official.
Pence, the head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, got the shot just after 8 a.m. in Washington.
Second Lady Karen Pence and Surgeon General Jerome Adams were also injected.
Pence called it a “truly inspiring day” that he said signaled the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Citing experts, Pence said the average vaccine usually takes between 8 and 12 years to develop. The United States is on track to administer millions of doses of the new vaccine to people less than one year from the emergence of the CCP virus.