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First lady Jill Biden on Monday will travel to Virginia to start a "nationwide effort" to get children between the ages of 5 and 11 vaccinated, the White House announced Friday.

State of play: Biden will "visit a pediatric COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, the first school to administer the polio vaccine in 1954," her office said.

The big picture: The U.S. this week approved a two-dose series of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for kids 5-11.

Jill Biden kicking off "nationwide effort" to get children vaccinated

Biden will visit a pediatric vaccination clinic at an elementary school in McLean, Virginia, on Monday.

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First lady Jill Biden on Monday will travel to Virginia to start a &quot;nationwide effort&quot; to get children between the ages of 5 and 11 vaccinated, the White House announced Friday.State of play: Biden will &quot;visit a pediatric COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, the first school to administer the polio vaccine in 1954,&quot; her office said.

President Biden has made the COVID-19 crisis and a post-Trump return to national unity and traditional democratic ideals his top priorities. From vaccinations to stimulus to schools, Biden is seeking bipartisan compromise while showing a willingness to use executive authority and bare Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate to implement his policies. Republican leaders are navigating deep party divisions over if and how to move beyond former President Trump.

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Jill Biden kicking off "nationwide effort" to get children vaccinated

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