Pence and wife get vaccinated for COVID as Trump's shot remains 'under consideration'

Pence and wife get vaccinated for COVID as Trump's shot remains 'under consideration' Vice President Mike Pence received his first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in a televised event in Washington, D.C., Friday morning, becoming the first prominent member of the Trump administration to get one. YahooNews

Vice President Mike Pence received his first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in a televised event in Washington, D.C., Friday morning, becoming the first prominent member of the Trump administration to get one.

Pence, wearing a protective mask and a short-sleeve button-down shirt, received the injection in his left arm from a doctor from Walter Reed Medical Center. Pence nodded and gave a thumbs-up. "I didn't feel a thing," he said.

Second lady Karen Pence and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams were also vaccinated. The vaccine requires two doses, several months apart, to be effective.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the White House coronavirus task force were in attendance at the small press event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where the vice president’s office is located.

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that Pence received was authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week, and the first non-trial doses were administered to frontline health care workers Monday. Authorization for a second vaccine, developed by Moderna, is expected within days.