WASHINGTON — The first time President Biden rolled up his sleeve on national television, it was December 2020. He had just been elected several weeks before; the coronavirus vaccine was a scarce, sought-after entity in much of the country.
Since then, he has repeated the ritual several times, receiving his booster shots on camera as a means of encouraging vaccine uptake.
And he did so again on Tuesday, when a member of the White House medical unit administered the bivalent booster that is intended to protect recipients from Omicron subvariants that now dominate the pandemic, as well as from the original coronavirus strain.
President Biden receiving the latest COVID-19 booster shot on