Vice President Kamala Harris told U.S. Naval Academy graduates that the country is entering “a new age” after COVID-19 in her keynote speech delivered Friday in Annapolis, Maryland.
“Well, Midshipmen, we are now entering the next era,” the former California Democratic senator said, according to Fox News.
“A new age, a new epoch, with its own tests, with its own challenges, and with its own opportunities.”
Harris was the first woman to give the keynote speech at the 175-year-old institution, The Associated Press reported.
She noted that the coronavirus pandemic “accelerated our world” into a new era.