HHS Secretary Alex Azar received his first dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine this morning as part of a NIH event
Dr. Fauci also received his first dose of the Moderna vaccine this morning at NIH.
He said he got the shot "as a symbol to rest of the country that I feel extreme confidence in the safety and the efficacy this vaccine."
He said he got the shot "as a symbol to rest of the country that I feel extreme confidence in the safety and the efficacy this vaccine."
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins also received the vaccine this morning saying, "it's one thing to hear me talk about it, it's another to have me roll up my sleeve and say 'I believe that this is the way we're going to get through this'"
The NIH was initially left out of receiving doses despite helping to develop Moderna vaccine. Today, a cohort of the federal government’s top health officials received shots of the vaccine on stage alongside a half-dozen frontline health care workers. politico.com/news/2020/12/2…
HHS Secretary Azar, Dr. Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins were vaccinated after six NIH clinical health care workers received inoculations, the initial step in a two-dose process spaced weeks apart politico.com/news/2020/12/2…
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