---
title: "Joe Biden Gets COVID Vaccine"
description: "On Monday, Biden received the first of two shots that make up the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. He was inoculated on camera to boost public trust in the shot."
date: "2020-12-21"
modified: "2020-12-21"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/joe-biden-covid-vaccine"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Medical"
  - "Pathogens"
  - "Viruses"
tags:
  - "biden"
  - "coronavirus"
  - "covid19"
  - "vaccine"
---

# Joe Biden Gets COVID Vaccine

![On Monday, Biden received the first of two shots that make up the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. He was inoculated on camera to boost public trust in the shot.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/joe-biden-covid-vaccine.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: NBC News\</em\>*

On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden got the first of two injections of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer.

Like other public figures have [already done](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/ian-mckellen-euphoric-taking-covid-vaccine>) or [vowed to do](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/obama-clinton-bush-take-covid19-vaccine>), Biden was vaccinated on camera in order to boost the public's trust in the vaccine and encourage as many people a possible to get inoculated themselves, [according to *CBS News* producer Sara Cook](<https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1341117710558748674>).

"There's nothing to worry about," Biden said as he was vaccinated.

https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1341117710558748674

"We owe these folks an awful lot," Biden [added](<https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1341118430938804224>), speaking specifically of the healthcare workers who have treated coronavirus patients, and scientists working on the vaccine throughout the pandemic.

Biden transition spokesperson Jen Psaki [told *CNN*](<https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/bidens-coronavirus-vaccination/index.html>) that the President-elect and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are staggering their inoculations — if they both by some chance get side effects from the vaccine, then this way only one of them would be out of commission at a time.

On the other hand, President Donald Trump has yet to be vaccinated, though a White House spokesperson told *CNN* that's because of treatments he took when he caught COVID-19 earlier this year, and will take the vaccine once doctors recommend doing so.

For most Americans who aren't considered frontline, essential workers or medically at-risk, vaccination could still be [months away](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/fda-vaccine-approval-created-spike-black-market-listings>). But *CNN* reports that Biden plans to distribute enough vaccines for 50 million people during his first 100 days in office.

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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