President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he broke 100 million views of the COVID vaccine in 100 days after he was criticized for setting a low ball target.
‘Before I took office, I set a big goal of managing 100 million views in the first 100 days. With the progress we are making I believe we will not only achieve that, we will break it, ‘Biden wrote on Twitter.
Biden has spoken about 100 million views in his arm in his first 100 days as president. He and his vice president, Kamala Harris, have also focused on the preparations left by the Trump administration, with Harris attacking them again over the weekend in an interview with Axios on HBO, saying they had been ‘starting from scratch. ‘
But some experts have maintained his goal and point out that the effective target of one million doses per day was achieved before Biden was even in office. Trump supporters were angry that they were not given credit for reaching millions of daily inoculations.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is chief medical adviser to the president, has said that any American who wants the vaccine will have a chance before the spring.
‘By the time we get to April, that’s what I’d say, for better terminology,‘ open season, ’Fauci said last week on NBC’s‘ Today Show ’. In fact, almost anyone and anyone in any region could start getting the vaccine. ‘
But Fauci walked that back Tuesday, telling CNN it would be late May or early June.
Since the spread of vaccination in the United States began in December. 14, more than 52 million doses were given, reaching 11.5 percent of the total population
President Joe Biden said he broke 100 million COVID vaccine views in 100 days after being criticized for setting a low ball target
Since the spread of vaccination in the United States began in December. 14, more than 52 million doses were given, reaching 11.5 percent of the total population, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The U.S. currently manages more than 1.6 million views per day.
At that point, Biden will easily fulfill his promise to vaccinate 100 million Americans in 100 days.
The president will travel to Kalamazoo, Michigan Thursday, to tour the Pfizer manufacturing facility making the COVID vaccine.
Biden announced last week that his administration received an additional 200 million doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, enough to protect all American adults.
‘We have now bought enough vaccine products to vaccinate all Americans,’ Biden said during a visit to the National Institutes of Health. ‘Now we are working to get these vaccines into the arms of millions of people.’
He warned of logistical hurdles meaning many Americans will not get the vaccine until late summer.
The vaccines are two dose rules, taken three or four weeks apart.
Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted that any American who wants the vaccine will have a chance before April
Biden also blamed the delay on the vaccination of his predecessor in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump.
‘It’s no secret that the vaccination program was in much worse shape than my team expected,’ he told NIH last week.
‘My predecessor, to be blunt about it, did not do his job to prepare for the great vaccine challenge of hundreds of millions of Americans,’ he said.
In addition, President Biden will address the global issue of COVID this week when he speaks to G-7 leaders. The virtual meeting, hosted by the United Kingdom, will also involve the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the European Commission and the European Council.
At the weekend, Harris tasted the state of the vaccine program she said Biden’s administration acquired when he took office. ‘There was no lump of vaccines,’ Harris said after nearly a month in office.
There was no national vaccine strategy or plan. We were leaving it to the states and local leaders to try and see it. And so in many ways we are starting from the very beginning of something that has been wild for a whole year, ‘she said. Axios in an interview.
She pushed back when asked if she had to read what she could achieve. ‘We have to work out a way – that has to be at our normal level,’ she said. Our status must be: ‘Everything is possible, but we have to work like heck to make it happen.’
Biden on Thursday announced President Trump, though he has praised Trump’s Operation Warp Speed for his contribution to vaccine development.
‘My predecessor, being very rude about it, didn’t do his job,’ Biden said. ‘We won’t have fixed everything for a while. But we are going to fix it. ‘
Fauci, who continued his career at the National Institutes of Health into the Biden administration after occasionally beating Trump, reported Jan. 21 who were directly against Harris.
‘We’re definitely not starting from scratch, because there is activity going on in the distribution,’ Fauci said at the White House.
‘We’re coming in with new ideas, but also some ideas that weren’t bad ideas with the previous administration. You can’t say it wasn’t completely useless at all, ‘he said. ‘It takes what is going on, but expands it in a big way.’
Fauci, 80, told Axios in his own interview that he was concerned about his safety when he attended coronavirus action group meetings at the Trump White House.
‘I didn’t settle for that, but it was in the back of my mind because I had to be out there,’ he said. ‘I mean, especially when I was going to the White House every day when the White House was kind of a real spreader place. ‘