WASHINGTON – On Monday, the first lady of the United States Jill Biden visited a school in Virginia to promote vaccination for children aged 5 to 11. This is the latest effort by the White House to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
The President’s wife is a university professor. She is the first senior person sent to advocate for the vaccine since the United States approved the vaccine for use in young children on November 2.
When visiting Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, not far from Washington, Biden distributed stickers to students who had been vaccinated and encouraged the audience to applaud for them.
But her message is mainly aimed at parents of a school, which, according to the White House, was the first school in the United States to be vaccinated against polio in 1954.
“Nothing is more important than the health of our children,” she said.
She continued:
We have a responsibility to keep them safe-and with this vaccine, we can do it.
Currently, approximately 28 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the United States are eligible to receive Pfizer’s BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
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