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COVID-19: Bidens To Receive First Dose Of Pfizer Vaccine Monday
President-elect of the United States of America, Joe Biden and incoming first lady Jill Biden will receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday in Delaware, according to transition spokesperson Jen Psaki.
As gathered by Eko Hot Blog, the transition team did not have details on where exactly the vaccination would take place.
Psaki said that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, would receive their vaccinations the following week.
Pfizer’s vaccine requires two doses administered several weeks apart in order to reach 95% efficacy.
Psaki said Biden and Harris were staggering the vaccine at the recommendation of medical experts. The reason could be that if Biden and Harris experience the expected side effects, such as a headache or fever, the two would not experience them on the same day.
Incumbent President, Trump has not received the vaccine yet and won’t be administered one until it is recommended by the White House medical team, a White House official told journalists earlier this week. The President is still receiving the benefits of the monoclonal antibody cocktail he was given after he tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year, the official said, but he is likely to get his shot once he moves into a timing window to receive vaccination.
The announcement from Biden’s team comes after the first doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine were injected into health care workers on Monday. The vaccine was authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use last week, and the first doses have been delivered to all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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