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Nurse of Guyanese origin administers COVID-19 vaccine on Kamala Harris
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from a nurse of Guyanese origin, Patricia Cummings, yesterday at the United Medical Center in Washington, DC. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP photo)
US (USAToday) – Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at United Medical Center in southeast Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning.
The couple received their first doses of the vaccine a little over a week after President-elect Joe Biden was vaccinated.
“That was easy! I barely felt it,” Harris exclaimed after being injected. The vice president-elect thanked the staff of United Medical Center for serving “a community that is often overlooked.” Harris later said she chose to be vaccinated in Southeast D.C., a majority-Black area of the city, to encourage “trust in the vaccine, in the people who work in your community every day.”
The vaccine was administered by nurse Patricia Cummings, the daughter of two Guyanese immigrants to the U.S.
“I want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine.” Harris said. “It is relatively painless and effective.”
Harris received the vaccine as the Trump administration’s rollout of vaccines across the country has lagged projections. Biden has pledged to make 100 million vaccines available in his first 100 days in office.
The incoming executives also received the vaccine amid a debate over whether public officials who were vaccinated were modeling good behavior or “cutting the line” ahead of groups who more needed the vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci had urged Biden and Harris to receive the vaccine for “security reasons.”
“This is about saving lives. I trust the science, and it is the scientists who created and approved this vaccine,” Harris emphasized. “This is about saving your life, the life of your family members and of your community.”
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