Vice President-elect Kamala Harris said she “barely felt” the COVID-19 vaccine shot in her left arm on Tuesday after she was inoculated with the first of two Moderna doses at a Washington hospital in the heart of the city’s Black community. Harris said she deliberately chose the city’s only public hospital, United Medical Center, because it serves neighborhoods in the city’s Southeast quadrant that are predominantly Black, a population that polls show is distrustful of the vaccine. Newsletter Get our Essential Politics newsletter The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C. Harris praised the nurse who gave her the shot in a small auditorium before reporters, hospital workers and administrators. The low acceptance rate was reflected among people who work at the hospital where Harris was vaccinated.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 29, 2020 18:22 UTC