US President-elect Joe Biden is set to get the coronavirus vaccine as early as next week, an official has said.
Biden has said he would get the injection in a public setting to instill confidence in its safety.
The 78-year-old is in a high risk category for the coronavirus because of his age.
The Biden transition official said the President-elect is expected to receive his first coronavirus vaccination next week.
Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence will be vaccinated for Covid-19 on Friday in a public event, the White House said on Wednesday.
The US is currently racing to deliver vaccine shots to doctors and nurses on the frontline of the pandemic.
Rollout of the first tranche of 2.9 million doses of a newly authorized vaccine from Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE continued for a third full day, with shipments headed to 66 more distribution hubs nationwide.
A second vaccine from Moderna Inc could win emergency-use approval from the US Food and Drug Administration this week.
Express delivery companies FedEx and United Parcel Service, sharing a leading role in vaccine shipments, said they were monitoring the potential impacts of heavy snow and ice that had begun to disrupt transportation systems along the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday.
U.S. Army General Gustave Perna, overseeing the government's Operation Warp Speed vaccine campaign, said FedEx and UPS have developed strategies for bad weather, including plans to keep any delayed vaccine shipments secure until they can be "delivered the next day."
"We are on track with all the deliveries we said we were doing," Perna said at a briefing.
Some 570 other vaccine distribution centers received the bulk of the initial batch of shipments on Monday and Tuesday, and an even larger wave was due for delivery to 886 additional locations on Friday, Perna said.
