Gov. Ron DeSantis receives Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has received a single-dose coronavirus vaccine.

His office confirmed Wednesday that the Republican governor got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which requires only a single dose. He was vaccinated last week out of the public eye -- even as governors elsewhere across the political spectrum have been vaccinated publicly to reassure Americans that the shots are safe.

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DeSantis had recently said he would get vaccinated soon.

The governor's administration has been working to get Floridians inoculated against a virus that has killed nearly 34,000 people statewide and infected more than 2 million others in the state.

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