Tue Nov 9, 2021 – 3:13 pm ESTTue Nov 9, 2021 – 3:14 pm EST
MCLEAN, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — First Lady Jill Biden is traveling the country to encourage Americans to vaccinate their children against COVID-19, starting her initiative Monday at Virginia’s Franklin Sherman Elementary School, where the first polio vaccine was administered in 1954.
“The vaccine is the best way to protect your children against COVID-19. It’s been thoroughly reviewed and rigorously tested, it’s safe, it’s free, and it’s available for every child in this country, 5 and up,” Mrs. Biden said, ABC News reports. “From the day you held your sweet, fragile, little baby, you have made the choice, again and again, to keep your child safe. Giving your child the COVID-19 vaccine is your choice too. So, make the decision to protect your children with the same vaccine that has already saved millions of lives.”
Joining the First Lady on stage was a sixth grader named Everett Munson, who said he was “excited to be vaccinated because now I’ll be able to visit my cousins and grandfather,” and go “places without worrying that I could get COVID and give it to my family,
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