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Biden says vaccines available for all Americans by end July
MILWAUKEE, Feb 17, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – President Joe Biden said Tuesday that
all Americans will have access to Covid-19 vaccines before August.
Biden has previously predicted that vaccines might be available to all by
spring, but the White House has recently toned down its optimism, citing
difficulties both with availability of vaccines and ability to deliver them.
Asked when all Americans would be vaccinated, Biden told a CNN town hall
meeting with members of the public: “By the end of July this year.”
“By the end of July we’ll have 600 million doses, enough to vaccinate every
American,” he said.
Biden also said that he wanted a faster return of children to schools and
that he backs vaccinations for teachers. Authorities should “move them up in
the hierarchy.”
Asked at the town hall session when life would get back to normal, Biden
said “by next Christmas we’ll be in a very different circumstance.”
“A year from now I think that there’ll be significantly fewer people that
have to be socially distanced, have to wear a mask,” Biden said, adding that
he couldn’t be sure.
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