The coronavirus vaccine could be the greatest accomplishment of his administration. So where is Trump?
As TV cameras beamed live from the White House complex Friday, Vice President Mike Pence shed his suit coat, answered some routine medical questions, and became the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to take the shot that could stop the spread of a virus that has killed more than 300,000 people. His wife, Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams, were also vaccinated.

”A medical miracle,” Pence called the development of the Pfizer vaccine, saying historians would probably record last week as “the beginning of the end of the pandemic.”

Strangely absent from the moment was President Trump, who frequently has claimed credit for pushing the development of a vaccine in record time but has been vague about when he might get the shot himself.

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