Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is sending warm wishes to all Americans, except for those who are getting the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of frontline workers.
“Merry Christmas to everyone except healthy people under 65 getting the vaccine before our frontline workers who have sacrificed everything for our country this year,” McCain tweeted on Thursday.
Merry Christmas to everyone except healthy people under 65 getting the vaccine before our frontline workers who have sacrificed everything for our country this year.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) December 24, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 1,008,025 doses of the vaccine had been administered, and 9,465,725 have been distributed just 10 days after the first doses were shipped out, as IJR previously reported.
White House coronavirus testing czar Adm. Brett Giroir reassured Americans the vaccine will be effective against other strains of the virus.
“We have every reason to believe that the vaccine will be effective against any variant that we’ve seen, including the new variant in the U.K.,” he said.
Giroir added, “It is not any more lethal or any more dangerous than the normal coronavirus, no evidence to suggest that, no reason to believe it.”
Vice President Mike Pence, wife Second Lady Karen Pence, and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams received the vaccine publicly last week, as IJR previously reported.
President-elect Joe Biden also received the vaccine on television on Monday.
Other lawmakers have expressed confidence in the vaccine and encouraged others to do the same.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said, “I’d take one right now. I’ll take two right now. I hear a lot of ‘I’m not gonna take it, because I don’t know what’s in it.’ And you know what I tell them? Do you eat hot dogs? You don’t know what’s in hot dogs, but you eat them. Take the vaccine.”
On Wednesday, the United States reported at least 3,411 new coronavirus related deaths and 227,522 new cases.
Since the onset of the pandemic, more than 18 million Americans have been infected and over 326,000 have died.
