Marco Rubio latest lawmaker to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Marco Rubio.
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is the latest U.S. lawmaker to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Rubio tweeted a photograph of the inoculation Saturday morning. He poked fun of himself for looking away from the needle, but expressed great confidence in the vaccine.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.