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Biden announces goal of 200 mn vaccine doses in first 100 days
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – President Joe Biden on Thursday launched a new
goal of administering 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the United States within his
first 100 days in office, double his original pledge.
“Today I’m setting a second goal, and that is, we will by my 100th day in office have
administered 200 million shots in people’s arms,” Biden told reporters in his first press
conference since taking office on January 20.
“I know it’s ambitious, twice our original goal,” he added. “But no other country in the
world has even come close — not even close — to what we are doing, and I believe we can
do it.”
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