U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, 78, will be vaccinated Monday against covid-19 in a public ceremony to try to dispel skepticism about the safety of the substance, his spokesman announced Friday.
“On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden and (his wife) Jill Biden will receive a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Delaware,” Jen Psaki said.
Vaccination will be done “in public,” he remarked, for “to send the message that the vaccine is” safe. “
The future vice president, Kamala Harris, will be vaccinated next week.
Incumbent Vice President Mike Pence, who has been coordinating the fight against the pandemic from the White House in recent months, received the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine on Friday at a live television event.
“Building confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here this morning,” the vice president said after being vaccinated in the White House with his wife.
Democratic wing president in Congress Nancy Pelosi was also vaccinated Friday. “Today, with confidence in science (…), I received the covid-19 vaccine,” the 80-year-old lawmaker wrote on Twitter.
The United States was preparing this Friday to approve a second vaccine against covid-19, the modern American laboratory vaccine, a week after the Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine – the one injected into Pence – obtained the approval of the Administration of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).