United States: Vice President Mike Pence gets vaccinated against Covid-19 in public

The Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, was vaccinated against Covid-19 at the White House on Friday, December 18.

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While the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by Moderna should soon obtain marketing authorization, the Pfizer vaccine is already administered in the United States.

To encourage the population to have confidence in this preventive treatment, Vice President Mike Pence received his first injection this Friday morning in front of the cameras.

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With our correspondent in Washington,

Anne Corpet

“ 

I didn't feel anything at all,

 ” said Mike Pence after receiving his first dose of the vaccine.

Referring to the approach of Christmas, the Vice President, a very religious man, added " 

it is the season of hope and hope is on the way

 ".

"W

e can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of American innovation and creativity,"

said Mike Pence.

It's the light of a life-saving drug and a safe and effective vaccine.

I am confident: we will overcome this crisis and we will do it together

 ”.

Fauci was present

The famous

doctor Fauc

i attended the vaccination of the vice-president.

" 

It is a very important symbolic gesture

 ", he commented.

But Antony Fauci estimates that it will be several months before the United States can emerge from the pandemic.

“

We all hope and I think it is possible that within several months we will have enough protected people to start seriously considering a return to normalcy.

And that depends on all of us: we must be vaccinated,

 ”insisted the doctor.

President-elect Joe Biden

will also be vaccinated on Monday, December 21 with his wife.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the United States.

It has already caused the death of more than 310,000 Americans.

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