A U.S. Army soldier from the 2nd Armored Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, immunizes Jacklina Mendez with the COVID-19 vaccine at the North Miami Dade College campus on March 9, 2021 in North Miami, Florida.
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The Biden administration will allow a wider range of health workers, including dentists, veterinarians, EMTs and medical students, to start administering Covid-19 fires as part of its “war” effort to bring the nation closer to normal. summer.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is using its authority under the Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Preparedness Act to authorize more medical professionals and qualified students to manage fires, the agency said Friday.
This means that dentists, EMTs, midwives, optometrists, paramedics, nurses, podiatrists, respiratory therapists and veterinarians can start administering Covid-19 vaccines nationwide, according to HHS.
It also authorizes “medical students, nursing students and other health students in the professions listed in the PREP law with adequate training and professional supervision to serve as vaccinators,” the statement said.
The move comes after President Joe Biden announced on Thursday night that he will guide all states, tribes and territories in the US so that all adults, aged 18 and over, are eligible for coronavirus vaccines by May 1.
The president, during his first prime-time address to the nation on the pandemic’s one-year anniversary, said the goal is for Americans to be able to gather in small groups, in person, to celebrate July 4th.
“That doesn’t mean everyone will get a shot right away, but May 1 is the date every adult will be eligible to sign up to get a shot,” Biden’s Covid newspaper Jeff Zients said Friday. “By the end of May, we expect to have enough vaccine for all adults in this country.”
The US now administers an average of 2.2 million vaccines a week. About 65 percent of Americans over the age of 65 are now inoculated, Zients said. Only more than a quarter of adults aged 18 and over have now received at least one vaccine, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We are making progress, but we still have work to do,” he said.
On Monday, the CDC released its first set of guidelines for people who are fully vaccinated, saying it can now mix with other people vaccinated indoors without masks or social distances.