“Folks who are working in the same hospital where an elderly relative received the kind of care that they needed,” CNN quoted Harris as saying.
The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for two Covid-19 vaccines: one particular from Pfizer/BioNTech and one particular from Moderna.
The two vaccines have shown equivalent efficacy levels of close to 95 per cent, and each demand two doses administered quite a few weeks apart.
On December 18, Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, Surgeon General Jerome Adams,House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination all on reside Television, in a bid to instill self-confidence amongst Americans.
President Donald Trump, who had tested positive for the virus in October, is but to get vaccinated.
As of Wednesday morning, the US, at the moment the hardest-hit nation in the globe by the pandemic, has registered a total of 19,299,960 confirmed coronavirus situations and 334,830 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Both tallies are the highest in the globe.