“I'm not going to be getting it today. Likely, I hope, within the next few days,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Vox’s Sean Rameswaram.
“We just rolled it out yesterday. There were 2.9 million doses that were distributed to about 145 sites, so we're going to try and do it really as a symbol to get people to appreciate that we're confident that it's safe and that it is certainly very efficacious,” he added, citing the efficacy of both Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines.