WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest news about President-elect Joe Biden (always local):
1.30 pm
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will receive their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday.
That’s according to Biden’s incoming press secretary, Jen Psaki.
Elected Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will receive their doses the following week.
The announcement was made Friday, hours after Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the top government officials to receive their first doses of a vaccine that could eventually end the raging coronavirus pandemic.
Psaki told reporters that Biden would receive the shot in public, as Pence did on Friday.
She said the Bidens would also thank the employees of the Delaware medical facility where they will be getting their injections.
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8:05 am
President-elect Joe Biden celebrated the 48th anniversary of the accident in which his first wife and daughter died while attending Mass in the church where they are buried.
Neilia Biden and the couple’s 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were killed when their car was hit by a trailer while taking the kids to pick out a Christmas tree.
Sons Hunter and Beau were seriously injured. They were a year and a day apart in age, at 3 and 4.
Joe Biden had just been elected to the Senate and was in Washington to set up his new office at the time of the accident.
Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended the Friday morning service in Delaware at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, a Roman Catholic church. The church campus contains a large parish cemetery. After Mass, the Bidens walked to the tombstones to pay their respects.
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