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Biden receives the COVID-19 vaccine on television this Monday

2020-12-21T10:50:42.461Z


While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have already received their first injection, outgoing President Donald Trump has not yet.


President-elect Joe Biden will receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in a television broadcast on Monday, as did outgoing Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence.

The event takes place the same day that Moderna's vaccine, approved on Friday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), begins to be administered to groups at higher risk such as

health workers

and

elderly people

in residences.

A week earlier, that of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech arrived at the hospitals.

And it also happens when the virus has killed

more than 318,000 Americans,

according to data from NBC News, Telemundo's sister network.

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"I don't want to get ahead of the line (of those waiting for the vaccine), but I want to make sure we show the American people that it is safe," Biden said of his decision.

The Democrat and his wife, Jill, will thank the health workers at the center where they will receive the injections, their press secretary said.

US Vice President Mike Pence received the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech on December 18 at the White House.Andrew Harnik / AP

Some legislators were among the first to inoculate themselves against COVID-19, in the largest vaccination campaign in the country's history.

Among these are House

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

,

Democrat

, and Senate Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell

,

Republican

, who received the injection on Friday.

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Both chose to publicize their injections as part of a campaign to convince Americans that

the vaccines are safe

and

effective

amid skepticism, especially among Republicans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi receives Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Congressional Physician Dr. Brian Monahan in Washington on Friday, December 18, 2020.

Vice President-elect

Kamala Harris and her husband are expected to

receive their first doses

next week.

And Trump?

Outgoing President Donald Trump

has not joined

efforts to encourage citizens to get vaccinated, despite his Administration's push to develop and distribute the vaccines in record time.

The advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said those who received the same

antibody

treatment 

that Trump received

postpone vaccination

for at least 90 days.

"From a scientific point of view, I will remind people that the president has had COVID-19 in the last 90 days. He received monoclonal antibodies. And that's actually a scenario where we tell people that maybe he should postpone the vaccine, "the nation's health policy leader, Dr. Jerome Adams, said in an interview with CBS on Sunday.

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But others, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert,

have recommended that Trump be vaccinated without delay.

"Although the president himself was infected and probably has antibodies that could be protective, we are not sure how long that protection lasts."

So, to be doubly sure, I would recommend that you get vaccinated, "he told ABC News.

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The leader of the Trump Administration's vaccination program, Moncef Slaoui, told CNN that the vaccine is safe for those who have recovered from the virus and offers stronger and potentially longer protection than the virus itself.

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"We know that infection does not induce a very strong immune response and that it decreases over time. So I think that, as a clear precaution, it is appropriate to be vaccinated because it is safe," he warned.

"I think people should be vaccinated, actually," he added.

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It is tradition that presidents and their families are vaccinated in public to increase the confidence of citizens.

Former President Dwight Eisenhower noted that one of his grandchildren was among the first wave of American children vaccinated against polio.

In 2009, former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle vaccinated their two young daughters, who were in a higher risk group, against swine flu.

With information from AP.

Source: telemundo

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