Pentagon chief receives vaccine for COVID-19
Christopher Miller, the acting defense secretary and Pentagon chief was one of the first Americans to be injected with the COVID-19 vaccine.
On Monday, December 14, Pentagon shared a video of Miller receiving coronavirus vaccine at the Walter Reed military hospital.
“That’s all?! Oh come on! That did not hurt at all!” he quipped while receiving the vaccine.
Last week, the Pentagon announced that Christopher Miller and other top officials of the military would get the COVID-19 vaccine.
This aimed to spread the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19.
The United States is prioritizing nursing homes and frontline healthcare workers for the COVID-19 vaccine.
By Wednesday, almost 3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are to be distributed.
The US government is targeting 20 million Americans to be vaccinated by the end of December and 100 million people by the end of March.
As of Monday, the United States has surpassed 300,000 deaths due to the dreaded disease.
The US leads in the number of cases with nearly 17 million infections, followed by India with almost 10 million cases and over 143,000 deaths.
Then, Brazil with almost 7 million cases and more than 181,000 deaths.
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