Now Claims There Was No Vaccine When He Took Office Wed Feb 17, 2021 Fact-checking Joe Biden is like fact-checking the crazy bum on the corner who keeps alternately mumbling and screaming about something. And so the best defense here will be the fact-checkers trying to put their words in his word salads. But, Biden does, fairly clearly, say, “It's one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn't have when we came into office." That's not the dumbest thing that Biden says, since he also goes on to suggest that there was a shortage of needles and people who can inject them. Has Biden not heard of flu shots?