Biden Aims To Vaccinate 70% of American Adults by July 4
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Biden's new COVID-19 vaccine goal aims for 160M fully inoculated by July 4President Joe Biden announced a new vaccination goal on Tuesday while providing an update on the pandemic, aiming for 160 million U.S. adults to be fully inoculated against coronavirus by July 4. According to federal data, over 105 million Americans, or nearly 32% of the population, are now fully vaccinated. Biden is also aiming for 70% of the U.S. adult population to have one vaccine shot by July 4, which currently stands at 44.4%, per CDC estimates.
"If we succeed in this effort, as we did with the last, then...
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Biden’s new goal: get 70% of Americans vaccinated by Fourth of JulyJoe Biden has announced a goal of ensuring 70% of American adults receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by Independence Day on 4 July.
The US president urged people in their 20s and 30s in particular to get inoculated and said his administration was “ready to move immediately” if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15.
“Our goal by July 4th is to have 70% of adult Americans with at least one shot and 160 million Americans fully...
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Biden sets goal of at least one shot to 70 percent of adults by July 4President Biden announced Tuesday a goal to administer at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine to 70 percent of U.S. adults by July 4, as the country moves to vaccinate harder-to-reach Americans.
Biden, in a speech Tuesday afternoon at the White House, also set a goal to have 160 million U.S. adults fully vaccinated by Independence Day.
Together, those goals will mean about 100 million more shots, both first and second doses, across the next 60 days, a senior administration official said.
The goal also acknowledges a slowdown in...
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