Biden gets his Pfizer COVID booster shot live on camera
Biden, 78, gets his Pfizer booster shot: Masked-up president jokes again about being ‘way older’ than 65 as Jill, 70, gets hers behind closed doors
President Joe Biden received his Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot in front of reporters on Monday ‘I know it doesn’t look like it, but I am over 65 – way over. And that’s why I’m getting my booster shot today,’ the president said Last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki pledged that Biden would get the shot in front of cameras Jill Biden also got her booster shot at the White House on Monday but behind closed doors
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President Joe Biden received his Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot in front of reporters Monday afternoon on the White House’s campus.
‘I know it doesn’t look like it, but I am over 65 – way over. And that’s why I’m getting my booster shot today,’ the president said speaking from a podium in the South Court Auditorium, before he rolled up his sleeve.
And first lady Jill Biden, 70, also got her vaccine booster on Monday at the White House but she received hers behind closed doors.
‘The First Lady received her booster shot this afternoon in the White House,’ her spokesperson Michael LaRosa said in a statement.
Biden, during his remarks, again shamed Americans who refused to get vaccinated, saying they accounted for about 23 per cent of the eligible population.
‘And that distinct minority is causing an awful lot of damage for the rest of the country,’ he said. ‘This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ he repeated.
The president said he didn’t have any side effects when he received his first and second doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
‘And I don’t anticipate one now,’ he said of his booster, seated and ready to receive his jab.
President Joe Biden receives his COVID-19 booster shot on campus at the White House Monday
The president joked about being ‘way older’ than 65, which makes him eligible to get a Pfizer booster
President Joe Biden spoke to the press about vaccinations Monday before getting his third dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
Biden took off his blue suit jacket and got help rolling up his long sleeve button-down shirt.
A nurse for the White House Medical Unit administered Biden’s shot.
He talked to reporters through getting his booster.
Last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki pledged that Biden would get the shot in front of cameras.
‘I’ll be getting my booster shot. It’s hard to acknowledge I’m over 65, but I’ll be getting my booster shot,’ he told reporters Friday, making a similar joke. ‘It’s a bear, isn’t it.’
‘But all kidding aside, I’ll be getting my booster shot,’ Biden said. I’m not sure exactly when I’m going to do it – as soon as I can get it done.’
Biden spent the weekend at Camp David, arriving back Sunday evening.
On Monday, the White House sent out an updated schedule – announcing the jab.
Biden previously had no public events.
During a Q&A with reporters as he was getting his shot, he pushed back on criticism from World Health Organization officials and others who say wealthy countries should be giving vaccine doses out to poorer countries instead of giving boosters to their citizens.
‘We are doing more than every other nation in the world combined,’ Biden said.
Journalists get the shot of President Joe Biden getting his third shot Monday in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
President Joe Biden is seen receiving his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on December 21
President-elect Joe Biden fist bumps nurse practitioner Tabe Masa as Jill Biden looks on after the President-elect received his first COVID vaccine on December 21, 2020
Biden will have Tuesday to recover as he’s traveling to Chicago for a COVID-19 event on Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized booster shots for Americans who received Pfizer doses if they’re older than 65 or at high risk for severe infection – including those whose occupations put them at high risk.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended that boosters not be made available to those put at-risk at work, but CDC Director Rochelle Walensky overruled them.
Americans eligible for boosters should get them six months after they were fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
Booster shots for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have yet to be rolled out.
The Bidens were among some of the first Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines.
The president and first lady received their first COVID-19 Pfizer doses on December 21 and second doses on January 11 – nine days before Biden was sworn-in.
The then president-elect had cameras watch him get the shots.
Jill Biden opted to get her jabs off-camera.
Biden has made a point to get his shots in public to show that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe.
His predecessor, former President Donald Trump, decided against getting vaccinated on TV, quietly getting his doses before leaving office in January.
Trump was hospitalized for COVID-19 in October, a month before the presidential election.
The Republican has touted his administration’s Operation Warp Speed – the public-private partnership to get a COVID vaccine swifly developed – but has allowed anti-vax sentiment on the far-right to bloom, by saying that people have the freedom to choose whether or not to be vaccinated.
‘I’m very proud of it. I saved millions of lives – but people have to have their freedoms,’ Trump said earlier this month.
Trump, 75, also said in early September that he ‘probably won’t’ get a booster shot – despite being eligible due to his advanced age.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Monday afternoon that he had received his third shot, sharing a photo of Dr. Brian Monahan, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress, handing him his updated vaccine card, rather than an image of him getting the dose.
‘I’ve been a lifelong champion of vaccinations,’ the top Senate Republican said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) receives his updated COVID-19 vaccine card from Attending Physician of the United States Congress, Dr. Brian Monahan (right), after receiving his booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine
Then President-elect Joe Biden receives his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on January 11, 2021, nine days before he was sworn-in
