A White House official said Wednesday that the United States will be close to having almost half of all adults with their first shot of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of this weekend.
This comes after the great evening, the White House chief adviser for the response to Covid-19, Andy Slavitt, gave Chris Cuomo an ambitious timeline.
“We’re on the right track that by the end of the week, half of the country’s adults will have had their first shot,” Slavitt said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that 41.7% of the population over the age of 18 has received at least one dose of vaccine.
Slavitt warned that “over 100 million adults have not yet been vaccinated.”
“I’m not there yet and you won’t win the war until you bring everyone with you,” he added.
Meanwhile, President Biden has moved the deadline for all US adults to be eligible for the Covid vaccine April 19. Speaking at the White House yesterday, Biden said 150 million doses of coronavirus vaccine were given in its first 75 days of operation, in line with the stated goal of 200 million photos by the 100th day of operation. .
Despite these improvements and the positive number of vaccines, the US still has a long way to go before the herd’s immunity is reached. Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated that 70-85% of the population should become immune. And the rate of vaccination of all disposed adults varies widely between states, according to a CNN analysis of federal data.
And while health experts warn that the fight against Covid-19 is not yet won, many states have already reopened, and others intend to do so soon.
California intends to completely reopen its activities and businesses from June 15, as infection rates fail, hospitalizations are low and vaccinations increase in the state. Vermont Governor Phil Scott has set a 90-day reopening plan until July 4. Officials anticipate that about 70 percent of Vermont residents will have received at least one dose of the vaccine by then.
Meanwhile, the daily rate of new cases has increased in the last four weeks, as highly transmissible variants such as B.1.1.7. spread, according to the CDC. In the last week, five states accounted for about 44 percent of new cases of Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
There have been about 453,000 new cases in the country in the last seven days, with New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey reporting nearly 198,000 cases.
The director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Michael Osterholm, said that although states are getting vaccinated quickly, not enough people have been vaccinated to overcome the spread.
I would like to have another 3 or 4 months before this increase of variant B.1.1.7. Let it start to appear, “Osterholm added.
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