I watched yesterday as Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams took the COVID vaccine at Walter Reed National Medical Center. Pence noted that while vaccines normally take several years to research and develop, he wanted to take the vaccine publicly in order to âassure the American people that while we cut red tape, we cut no corners.â The vice president also said that 2.9 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been allocated this week, and 20 million doses will be distributed by the end of December. Pence described the vaccine as âa medical miracle,â and declared, âI am confident we will get through this, and we will heal our land.â