President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from nurse practitioner Tabe Mase, on December 21, in Delaware. | Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

The president-elect wants to convince Americans that the vaccine is safe and effective.

President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Delaware on Monday on live TV. After rolling up his sleeve and getting the shot, Biden thanked health care workers and scientists.

“We owe these folks an awful lot,” he said. “The scientists and the people who put this together, the front-line workers, the people who were the ones that did the clinical work.”

Biden made it clear that his decision to get vaccinated on television is part of the urgent effort to show Americans that the vaccine is safe and effective. “It’s worth saying that this is a great hope. I’m doing this to