As of yesterday, the Trump administration had shipped more than 21 million vaccine doses, but only 5.9 million people had received a dose. This is partly due to hospitals and staff being overrun with treating new COVID-19 patients not having the resources to plan and vaccinate hospital workers and at-risk older Americans.
Biden has promised that 100 million doses of the vaccine would be administered by his 100th day in office. Theestimates we would need to vaccinate 1.8 million people a day, every day, from Jan. 1 to May 31, to have widespread immunity by this summer. But many worry Biden’s plan may leave those needing the booster, without. Officials from the Food and Drug Administration have spoken
changing the dosing schedule, calling such a move “premature and not rooted solidly in the available evidence.”— Sabrina Siddiqui
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