Biden Receives COVID-19 Vaccine

By Staff, Agencies

US President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on live television Monday afternoon, telling Americans moments after getting the shot "there's nothing to worry about."

The 78-year-old incoming president got the Pfizer vaccine at the Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. His wife Jill received the shot earlier, the presidential transition team said.

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife got vaccinations last week but President Donald Trump has yet to take part in the drive.

Meanwhile, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband are expected to receive their first shots next week.

For Biden, who will be the oldest president ever to take office on January 20, this was the first shot in the two-stage Pfizer vaccine. He said he was "looking forward" to the follow-up.

Biden praised "the scientists and the people who put this together -- frontline workers, people who were the ones who actually did the clinical work."