Biden said he is optimistic that the vaccine will be readily available to those who want it somewhere in the spring.
‘We are trying to take out a minimum of 100 million vaccinations within 100 days and move in the next 100 days in the direction we are going much further so that we can reach the point where we reach herd immunity in a country of more than 300 million people, ”he said.
Biden’s nominee for surgeon general Vivek Murthy also said on Sunday that the government had started looking beyond the initial target of 100 million vaccinations.
‘It’s a floor; it’s not a ceiling, ‘Murthy said on ABC’s This Week. “It is also a goal that reflects the reality of what we face, what can go right, but also what can go wrong.”
By the end of former President Donald Trump’s term, however, the nationwide rate hovered around the million shots a day. states and local officials frustrated that the supply shows signs of unsustainability that could prevent them from meeting demand as they begin to expand the qualification to ten million people.
Some of Biden’s top health advisers have expressed similar concern about the offer as they fold their heads around the government’s first major test, occasionally swearing at their predecessors about the plight of the implementation the president has taken over. .
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that the situation was “much worse than we could have imagined.”
Biden’s elected director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, told Fox News Sunday that the offer is currently the ‘most restrictive restriction’, but the hope is that it will be resolved later this year.
The focus on the vaccination effort has increased as at least two variants of the virus have begun to arouse fear among medical experts. One strain, identified in the UK, appears to be more transmissible – and potentially deadly, Said Anthony Fauci, the leading American expert in infectious diseases, on Monday – while a virus strain found in South Africa is resistant to antibody treatments.
Biden raises travel restrictions, including a ban on most non-US citizens traveling South Africa and several other countries, in an effort to keep the variant strains of the coronavirus at stake.