Kamala Harris gets Moderna COVID-19 shot live on television in bid to boost US vaccine confidence

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Tuesday received her first dose of the Moderna COVID -19 vaccine before live television cameras as part of a growing effort to convince the US public the inoculations are safe. The vice president-elect took a dose of the vaccine at United Medical Center in southeast Washington, DC and said her husband Douglas Emhoff would do the same. "That was easy! Thank you. I just barely felt it. I barely felt it," Harris said after receiving the shot.