Pentagon chief Christopher Miller receives COVID-19 vaccine, says 'It didn't hurt'

US acting defense secretary and Pentagon chief Christopher Miller on December 14 were ministered a shot of newly authorized Pfizer and BioNtech vaccine live on camera. jab was given at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Besda, Md., according to a video shared by Department of Defense. Miller can be seen encouraging Americans to take vaccine as he jokes, "That's all?! Oh come on! That did t hurt at all!”. Pentagon, meanwhile, informed in a press release that it planned to iculate military’s top commanders live to encour service members to get vaccinated.

Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said at a conference that combatant commands will send a” mess" to push eligible personnel to take vaccines in initial phase of rollout. Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, Deputy Secretary of Defense David rquist, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley, Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman Gen. John Hyten, and Senior Enlisted visor to Chairman Ramón Colón-López are among some of top commanders in US military to publicly get shot, he informed. Many volunteered, Hoffman stressed. US recorded nearly 300,000 COVID-related fatalities as country started dispensing Pfizer's COVID-19 shots on December 14 in a campaign, with very first vaccine ministered Monday morning in Queens, state officials said at a press conference. 

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Doubled order of Moderna

Earlier as New York registered more than 35,000 cases, director of critical care nursing at Long Island Jewish Medical Center was ministered vaccine shot at 9:20 a.m. during a news conference with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. recipient nurse encourd and paid tribute to essential workers and medics as US hit grim milestone of 300,000 deaths. Meanwhile, US Health and Human Services anunced in a statement that Trump ministration doubled order of total vaccine shots it initially committed to purchasing from pharmaceutical company Moderna Inc. in an order worth $1.65 billion to fight pandemic. 

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