Biden receives second dose of coronavirus vaccine

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President-elect Joe Biden is inoculated against the coronavirus after receiving his second COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Biden and his wife, incoming first lady Jill Biden, got their first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 21. The vaccine, approved before Moderna’s iteration, is 95% effective seven days following patients’ second dose, received three weeks after their initial jab.

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