US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine against the novel coronavirus. According to the Biden-Harris transition team, Harris was vaccinated on Tuesday by Patricia Cummings, a clinical nurse manager at the United Medical Center.

In a tweet late Tuesday, Harris said: "Today I got the Covid-19 vaccine. I am incredibly grateful to our frontline health care workers, scientists, and researchers who made this moment possible. "When you're able to take the vaccine, get it. This is about saving lives." After receiving the shot, Harris said she wants to "encourage everyone to get the vaccine. It is relatively painless. It happens really quickly. It is safe". The Vice President-elect also reportedly confirmed that her husband, Doug Emhoff, would be receiving the first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday.

"I want to remind people that right in your community is where you can take the vaccine, where you will receive the vaccine, by folks you may know, folks who are otherwise working in the same hospital where your children were born. Folks who are working in the same hospital where an elderly relative received the kind of care that they needed," Harris said

The USFDA has granted emergency use authorization for two Covid-19 vaccines: one from Pfizer/BioNTech and one from Moderna.

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