Kamala Harris receives first dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
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Image Source : AP Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris campaigns for Democratic U.S. Senate challengers the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in Columbus, Ga.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has acquired the primary dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine reside on tv as a part of efforts to construct public belief within the inoculation and urged Americans to get vaccinated for the virus. Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff have been administered the vaccine at United Medical Center in Washington, DC.
“Let’s do it,” Harris mentioned earlier than she acquired her shot on Tuesday. She took the vaccine one week after President-elect Joe Biden acquired his.
Describing the method as ‘comparatively painless’, Harris urged all Americans to get vaccinated.
‘It’s about saving your life, the lifetime of your loved ones members, and the lifetime of your group,’ she mentioned.
“I trust scientists. And it is the scientists who created and approved this vaccine. So I urge everyone, when it is your turn, get vaccinated.”
Harris joins a rising variety of elected officers and medical doctors who’ve acquired their coronavirus vaccines on digicam to point out Americans that the pictures are secure.
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorisation for 2 coronavirus vaccines: one from Pfizer/BioNTech and one from Moderna. Both Moderna’s and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have proven related efficacy ranges of practically 95 per cent, and each vaccines require two doses administered a number of weeks aside.
Biden and his spouse, Jill Biden, acquired their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine on December 21. They acquired the Pfizer vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital in Newark, Delaware.
Biden and Harris staggered their vaccinations on the suggestion of medical consultants, in accordance with transition spokesperson Jen Psaki.
The purpose for such a suggestion may very well be that if Biden and Harris reported any negative effects, akin to a headache or fever, they’d not expertise them on the identical day, CNN mentioned.
Vice President Mike Pence was administered the vaccine at an on-camera occasion the week previous to Biden.
Several key members of Congress have additionally been inoculated, together with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acquired Moderna’s vaccine.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of greater than 335,000 within the US.
(With PTI inputs)
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