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President Joe Biden will receive a COVID-19 booster shot during an on-camera event Monday afternoon. Biden will also deliver remarks on COVID-19 vaccines.
This comes after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend booster doses for older adults, long-term care residents and people with underlying health conditions and those at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19 because of their job.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration( FDA) issued its authorization for those 65 and older and other immunocompromised people to get a third shot. Biden is 78 years old.
The event will be broadcasted live at 1 p.m. ET.
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Photo: Biden gets booster shot
President Biden, pictured below, received his COVID-19 booster shot Monday at the White House in front of a room of reporters.
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President says he did not receive vaccine side effects
As President Biden rolled up his shirt sleeve to get his third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, he told the room of reporters that he did not experience any negative side effects from his first two doses of the vaccine.
Biden delivers remarks ahead of booster shot
President Biden is delivering remarks to the press before he gets his booster shot.
“I know it doesn’t look like it but I am over 65,” the President joked, “way over.”
Biden said that booster shots are important, but the priority is to get more people to receive the first and second shots.
Over 77 percent of adults have received at least one shot, he said. But the 23 percent who haven’t received any shots are “causing a lot of damage for the rest of the country,” Biden said.
Biden will soon get his booster shot
President Biden, who is 78 years old, said last week that he would get his third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Hard to acknowledge I’m over 65, but I’ll be getting my booster shot,” Biden said Friday.
You can watch the event live on the White House YouTube page.
