Fauci receives vaccine, says he’s ‘extremely confident’ it’s effective
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By STEPHANIE EBBS, ABC News
(BETHESDA, Md.) The country’s most prominent infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, received his first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday in a ceremonial event at the National Institutes of Health.
The event was shown live on national television as part of an effort to reassure Americans that the vaccine was safe and effective.
Fauci received his shot along with NIH Director Francis Collins and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. They were joined by frontline health care workers at NIH who have been treating COVID-19 patients.
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Dr. Fauci receives COVID-19 vaccine
The country s most prominent infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci received his first dose of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.Patrick Semansky/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
The country s most prominent infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, received his first dose of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday in a ceremonial event at the National Institutes of Health.
The event was shown live on national television as part of an effort to reassure Americans that the vaccine was safe and effective. Fauci said he feels extreme confidence in the science behind the vaccine and wanted to get vaccinated publicly as a symbol for everyone in the country, as well as protecting him in his work where he sees patients at NIH.
Anthony Fauci Gets Moderna COVID Vaccine Days Before Turning 80 on Christmas Eve
On 12/22/20 at 10:41 AM EST
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has received his COVID vaccine during a live-streamed event.
He took the Moderna shot at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, after six health care workers from the NIH Clinical Center research hospital, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, had his vaccine after Fauci.
Fauci, who found new fame as a member of the White House coronavirus task force this year, had the vaccine days before he turns 80 years old on December 24, Christmas Eve.
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As health care workers and nursing home residents await the first scarce syringes of the COVID-19 vaccine, few realize that when they will get a dose depends a lot on what state they live in.
Though they’re first in line for the vaccine, some people in those groups may end up getting vaccinated after people in other states who are deemed lower priority.
The vaccine is allocated according to the number of adults in each state, which doesn’t correlate to the number of high-risk people living or working there. As long as supplies are limited, some states won’t get doses proportionate to their needs.