US political leaders line up for early Covid vaccines
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WASHINGTON, Dec 19, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Several senior US officials including Vice President Mike Pence got early Covid-19 vaccinations Friday, contrasting with Europe, where two leaders were quarantining after testing positive and EU regulators have yet to approve a vaccine.
Pence’s public inoculation against the coronavirus was the most high-profile attempt yet at persuading vaccine-skeptic Americans to join a massive national effort to halt a pandemic that has killed at least 1.66 million people and infected more than 74 million worldwide.
Also getting their shots were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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2020-12-19 01:00:52 GMT2020-12-19 09:00:52(Beijing Time) Sina English
US Vice President Mike Pence receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the White House on December 18 in Washington, DC.
US Vice President Mike Pence received a COVID-19 vaccine live on television Friday in a public display designed to boost national confidence in the drug, while President-elect Joe Biden is set to receive his shot on Monday. Building confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here this morning, Pence said after being injected, quipping: I didn t feel a thing.
Pence, his wife Karen and the nation s lead public health official, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, were all given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the annex to the White House.