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President-elect Joe Biden described Friday a plan to administer Covid vaccines – 19 to the United States population that includes opening up eligibility to vaccinate more people, creating more vaccination sites, and taking steps to increase supply and distribution of vaccines.
Biden’s plan includes mobilizing more staff to support the vaccination effort, launching a public education campaign to serve those who hesitate to take the vaccine, and focuses on ensuring equitable access to the vaccine across the country.
My administration will move Heaven and Earth to:
– Allow more people to get vaccinated
– Create more places for them to get vaccinated
– Mobilize more medical teams to get shots in arms
– Increase vaccine supply and get it out the door as soon as possible– Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 15, 2021
Biden stated that the country is still in a “very dark winter” due to the pandemic of the covid – 19 and warned that “things are going to get worse before they get better” .
“We are still in a very dark winter. Infection rates have increased rates have increased than ever before, “said Biden, who will assume the Presidency next Wednesday to replace Donald Trump.
The Democratic leader recalled that in The United States is registering a daily average of “between 3, 000 and 4, 000 deaths to As we approach the grim milestone of the 400, 000 deaths ” total.
According to the independent tally by Johns Hopkins University, the United States remains the worst-hit country in the world by the pandemic, with 23. 4 million cases and 391, 098 deaths.
The Centers for Control and Prevention n of Diseases (CDC) warned this Friday that a much more contagious variant of the coronavirus, identified for the first time in the United Kingdom, could advance rapidly in the United States and become the vector prevalence of infections in two months.
These projections are of particular concern for nursing homes and hospitals, many of which are already operating at or near their maximum capacity.
“I want to emphasize that we are deeply concerned that this strain is more transmissible and may accelerate outbreaks in the United States in the coming weeks, ” said CDC Deputy Director of Infectious Diseases Jay Butler.
“We urge people to realize that the pandemic is not over and that it is by no means time to throw in the towel,” he added.
Biden, for his part, reminded families that have lost a se r dear and said that he shares “the frustration that we all feel”, because “almost a year later, we are still far from returning to normality.”
The president-elect reiterated that the launch of the vaccine in the US has been a “resounding failure”, but promised to reach the 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days of your mandate.
“I am convinced that we can do it,” he insisted.
Biden said that once he takes office, will immediately work with states to open vaccines to the highest priority groups and solve the problem of lack of distribution that is occurring with the opening of more vaccination sites.
“ There are tens of millions of unused vaccine doses in a freezer, while people who want and need the vaccine do not or they can get it, ”he said.
He anticipated that, after his first month in office, there will be in all the country 100 vaccination points in gyms schools, sports stadiums or community centers, supported by the federal government, which will immunize millions of people.
He also promised the creation of mobile clinics that offer vaccines to communities with difficult access.
The president-elect announced This Thursday an ambitious plan that he will present to Congress to refloat the economy and curb the impact of the pandemic for which he will ask for $ 1.9 trillion dollars in budget allocation.
