US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of coronavirus vaccine on live television. The president-elect took a dose of vaccine at a hospital not far from his Delaware home, hours after his wife, Jill Biden, did the same. The development comes as a part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. The injections came the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in the states. It joins Pfizer’s in the nation’s arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 317,000 people in the United States and upended life around the globe.
“I’m ready,” said Biden, who was administered the dose at a hospital in Newark, Delaware. The president-elect rolled the left sleeve of his turtleneck all the way up to his shoulder, then declined the option to count to three before the needle was inserted into his left arm.
“You just go ahead anytime you’re ready,” he told the nurse practitioner who administered the shot.
