The previous three Presidents are willing to be vaccinated on camera.

With Moderna and Pfizer’s vaccines on the verge of approval, the pandemic discussion in the United States has turned to how willing the populace is to get the shot. According to a Gallup poll conducted in November, a small majority of Americans, about 58%, have expressed willingness to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine, an improvement over uncertainty expressed earlier in the year. However, according to public health experts, at least 60-70% of Americans will need to be vaccinated before herd immunity can be achieved. In an effort to improve the odds, former President Barack Obama has vowed to take the first step.

“I promise you that when it’s been made for people who are less at risk, I will be taking it,” Obama said during an interview on SirusXM’s “The Joe Madison Show,” several clips of which have been posted to YouTube.

“I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so that people know that I trust this science,” Obama continued. “What I don’t trust is getting COVID.”

Obama’s promise follows on promises made by the previous two US Presidents, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

“A few weeks ago President Bush asked me to let Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx know that, when the time is right, he wants to do what he can to help encourage his fellow citizens to get vaccinated,” Bush’s chief of staff Freddy Ford told CNN. “First, the vaccines need to be deemed safe and administered to the priority populations. Then, President Bush will get in line for his, and will gladly do so on camera.”

“President Clinton will definitely take a vaccine as soon as available to him, based on the priorities determined by public health officials. And he will do it in a public setting if it will help urge all Americans to do the same,” Clinton’s press secretary Angel Urena said.

During his interview, Obama took a moment to reach out to the Black communities of America, many of whom have expressed the most doubt about a vaccine. “I understand you know historically — everything dating back all the way to the Tuskegee experiments and so forth — why the African American community, would have some skepticism. But the fact of the matter is, is that vaccines are why we don’t have polio anymore, the reason why we don’t have a whole bunch of kids dying from measles and smallpox and diseases that used to decimate entire populations and communities,” he said.