President Joe Biden’s goal of vaccinating 100 million people against COVID-19 in his first 100 days in office depends on the Trump administration’s average.
Bloomberg News reported that 1.3 million vaccines were given on Thursday, Biden’s first full day in office.
However, a record 1.6 million immunizations were administered on Wednesday, the day Biden took office. The seven-digit mark was also reached by 1.3 million on January 11 and 1.1 million on both January 14 and 16 on the New York Post.
While he and his team said they were focusing on a “war effort,” Biden and his top spokesman were repeatedly pressured by reporters as to whether the vaccination target was too low.
White House Secretary of State Jen Psaki was asked on Friday why he should not pursue more, as the average for last week before Trump left office was 912,497.
“We set that goal before any American got a single shot,” Psaki said, referring to the vaccination plan Biden announced in early December.
“Therefore, the new Biden administration considered it important to set what was described as a bold and ambitious goal at the time, and many doubted that we could get right there.”
On Thursday, Biden said similar words after being asked if his goal is ambitious enough.
“When I announced it, you all said it wasn’t possible,” Biden said. “Come on, give me a break, man! It’s a good start.”
These words came at the end of a briefing in which Biden announced his “large-scale effort during the war” to defeat the pandemic by invoking the Law on Defense Production, which aims to increase vaccine production and establish websites. federally funded vaccination.
On Friday, Psaki also accused the Trump administration of creating operational challenges.
“We want to set our own markers and markers for the American public so that they know we are meeting our goal,” she said. “It simply came to our notice then [the 100-day goal], that’s great.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 17.5 million vaccines were administered out of 37.9 million nationwide.
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