Biden and Pence set to get COVID-19 vaccine Print this article President-elect Joe Biden is expected to get the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in public next week, a move that he hopes will encourage people who are apprehensive about receiving the shots. "I don't want to get ahead of the line, but I want to make sure we demonstrate to the American people that it is safe to take," Biden told reporters Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden had already pledged that he would get the vaccine on camera. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will get the first round of shots “as soon as we possibly can.”