US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the country will have enough COVID-19 vaccines for 300 million Americans by the end of July, affirming that there wasn't a rollout plan in place under the Trump administration.
"Within three weeks, 'round the clock work with so many people standing behind me and in front of me, we've now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans, and now we're working to get those vaccines into the arms of millions of people," Biden said during his speech at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Moreover, Biden stated that Pfizer and Moderna have agreed to deliver a total of 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of July, rather than the end of the summer, moving them up to May instead of June.
"That's a month faster," he noted. "That means lives will be saved."
The President said: “We're now on track to have enough supply for 300 million Americans.”
He asserted that his administration has made significant progress, given that the Trump administration "did not have a plan" for vaccine distribution.
Additionally; the President said that scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time; however, Trump did not do his job in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans.
He cited the period when he became a president three weeks ago, noting that America had no plan to vaccinate most of the country which was “a big mess.”
“He didn't order enough vaccines. He didn't mobilize enough people to administer the shots,” the President said. “He didn't set up the federal vaccine centers where eligible people can go and get their shots."
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