US President-elect Joe Biden will receive the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, three weeks after the first injection, the administration of which was broadcast live on television to encourage people to do the same, a announced his transition team.
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“I am doing this to show that people must be ready to be administered the vaccine when it is available, there is nothing to worry about”, said the future president just after the injection of the Pfizer vaccine. on December 21 at a hospital in Newark, Delaware.
His transition team said the second injection will also be administered in front of the media, without giving further details.
More than 374,000 people have died from the new coronavirus in the United States, and Joe Biden has denounced as a “masquerade” the distribution of vaccines in his country organized by the government of outgoing President Donald Trump.
The future Biden administration has announced that it will distribute all available COVID-19 vaccine doses, rather than withholding half of the doses to meet the deadlines for the second injection.
The president-elect, who will take up his new post on January 20, “is in favor of the immediate distribution of the available doses, and considers that the government should stop curbing the supply of vaccines, so that there is more doses in the arms of Americans right now, “TJ Ducklo, a spokesperson for the transition team, told CNN Friday.
About 6.7 million Americans have received the first injection against COVID-19, well below the 20 million initially targeted for the end of 2020. So far, some 22.1 million doses have been distributed nationally , which illustrates the logistical challenge of this operation.
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