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President Joe Biden stated on Thursday he would order U.S. states to allow all adults to be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by May 1, as he told Americans he hoped the country could achieve some sort of normality by the Independence Day holiday on 4 July.
In a powerful but bleak speech in celebration of the first anniversary of the pandemic exclusion, Biden said he was speeding up COVID-19 vaccinations, hours after passing a $ 1.9 billion stimulus bill signed it.
The July 4 date is a new goal for the president, who has warned Americans of further pain and death due to a virus that has already killed more than 530,000 people in the United States, more than any other nation in the world. Coronavirus-related lockouts and restrictions have cost millions of jobs.
In a story of the toll the pandemic has claimed for the country, President Joe Biden said: ‘Photos and videos of 2019 feel like they were taken in another era. The last holiday. The last birthday with friends. The last holiday with extended family.
“Although it was different for everyone, we all lost something,” he said, noting that the virus had ‘denial for days, then weeks, then months’, leading to more deaths, more infections, more stress, more loneliness.” stated President Joe Biden
‘It’s a very American thing to find light in the dark. In fact, it is perhaps the most American thing we do, ‘he said in a White House speech cautiously optimistic about a country that, like the rest of the world, has grown tired of the pandemic and its limitations. added the US President.
Biden said he ordered U.S. states, territories, and tribes to be eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1. The White House announced it would have sufficient vaccine supplies by the end of May to vaccinate the population. About 10 percent of Americans have been completely vaccinated so far.
The president also announced that thousands more troops would be deployed to help with the vaccination effort, saying families and friends could reunite in small groups by July 4, a holiday many Americans celebrate with outdoor parties, hot dogs, and fireworks.
The White House also attempts to expand the group of people who can deliver shots to dentists, ophthalmologists, paramedics, veterinarians, and medical students.