Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday he still plans to get his COVID-19 vaccine on camera but doesn’t want to jump ahead of first responders and front-line health care workers.
The governor told C4 and Bryan Nehman he expects to get the shot “sometime after the first of the year.” The 64-year-old Republican is a cancer survivor and thus considered to be someone at high risk of severe illness should he contract the virus.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorizations to two vaccines and others are still in development.
“I would think sometime in the spring, hopefully, late spring, we’ll be able to vaccinate the general public,” Hogan said.
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In the short term, he said, people need to remain vigilant. That means staying home for the holidays. Hogan said he is taking his own advice by not welcoming his extended family to Government House and doing Zoom calls with his children and grandchildren.
“It’s not going to be quite the same thing but we really do want to encourage people not to travel and not to get big groups together,” Hogan said.
He also stressed the importance of charitable giving for those able to give. He appeared as part of WBAL’s annual Kids Campaign fundraiser, which C4 and Nehman ran from their respective homes rather than from its traditional home at Valley View Farms.
