President Joe Biden’s goal of vaccinating 100 million people against COVID-19 in his first 100 days in office depends on an average the Trump administration has achieved several times.
Bloomberg News reports Thursday, 1.3 million vaccines were given, Biden’s first full day in office.
However, a record high of 1.6 million vaccinations was administered on Wednesday, the day Biden entered service. The seven-digit point was also reached with 1.3 million on January 11 and 1.1 million on both January 14 and 16, according to the New York Post.
While saying that he and his team were focused on a time of war, Biden and his top spokesman were repeatedly pushed by reporters over whether the vaccination target was too low.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked on Friday why he did not want to aim higher since the average of last week before Trump left office was 912,497.
“We set the goal before any American got a single shot,” Psaki said, referring to the vaccination plan Biden announced in early December.
“The incoming Biden government therefore felt it was important to set what was described at the time as a bold and ambitious goal, and many doubted that we could even get there.”
On Thursday, Biden uttered similar words after being asked if his goal was ambitious enough.
“When I announced it, you all said it’s not possible,” Biden said. “Come on, give me a breather, man! That’s a good start.”
These words come at the end of an information session in which Biden announced his ‘full-scale wartime effort’ to defeat the pandemic by invoking the Defense Production Act, which aims to increase vaccine production and nationally funded vaccination sites. to establish.
Psaki also blamed the outgoing Trump administration on Friday for creating operational challenges.
“We want to set up our own markers and markers for the American public so that they know we are achieving our goal,” she said. ‘If we surpass [the 100-day goal], it’s great. ‘
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17.5 million vaccines were given out of 37.9 million distributed nationwide.
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