Tuesday, December 29th 2020, 12:44 pm
By: CBS News
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, received their first doses of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, with the incoming vice president getting her shot on camera as part of efforts to build public trust in the inoculations.
Harris and Emhoff were administered the vaccine at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., by Patricia Cummings, clinical nurse manager at the hospital. Let s do it, Harris told Cummings before she received her shot. I m ready.
After getting the vaccine, the vice president-elect exclaimed that was easy and said it was relatively painless and quick.
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The Trump administration s vaccine program, Operation Warp Speed, planned to provide 40 million doses of vaccines between the two companies by the end of the year, which would ve been enough for roughly 20 million people since each drug requires two shots at differing intervals.
As of the latest figures released Monday, however, it seemed far short of that goal: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said just more than 11.4 million doses had been distributed since Dec. 13 but only about 2.1 million had been administered. The CDC noted a number of reasons for the considerable difference between the number of distributed doses that have yet to be administered.