Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Won’t Say When Americans Should Expect To Be Vaccinated
(CNN)The White House coronavirus task force coordinator on Sunday wouldn’t set a timeline on when Americans can expect to be vaccinated following President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that the US would have enough Covid-19 vaccine doses for every adult by the end of May.
“The first step is to have the supply. We’ve made a lot of progress,” Jeff Zients told NBC. “There’s a long road ahead, we need to continue to accelerate the pace of shots per day, and the American Rescue Plan, which is now over to the House, has the funding necessary to continue to accelerate. So, our goal is to get as many Americans, all Americans vaccinated as efficiently and as fast as possible.”
Biden’s speedier estimate for producing Covid-19 doses for every adult American made for an optimistic target as millions in the US wait to receive their first doses. The effort, helped by a new partnership between major US drugmakers, had quickened the administration’s previous goal of having enough shots by two months, but issues with distribution and personnel mean it could take much longer for all doses to be administered, leaving Americans wondering when they will have access to a vaccine.
