Joe Biden to bring forward the date for all adults in the United States to be vaccinated against COVID: it will be from April 19

President Joe Biden was due to announce on Tuesday that he would reduce the May 1 deadline by about two weeks so that states vaccinate all adults against the coronavirus.

Biden will make the announcement at the White House on Tuesday after a visit to a vaccination center in Virginia, a White House official said.

As states gradually expand eligibility beyond priority groups like the elderly and essential frontline workers, the president plans to announce that All adults in the United States can be vaccinated on April 19said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s plans ahead of the official announcement.

The president announced last week that 90% of adults could receive one of the three approved vaccines by April 19, in addition to having a vaccination center within 5 miles of their homes. Now it targets 100% of the legal age population.

So far, several states have opened vaccination by removing priority barriers and others have announced a schedule in line with the new schedule. Only Hawaii and Oregon had maintained plans to make it available to all adults on May 1, so they’ll have to step up their campaigns to adjust to the new goal..

The CNN was the first to report on Biden’s planned announcement.

For both deaths and COVID-19 infections, the United States is the number one country in the world, with more than 555,000 deaths and 30.7 million infected since 2020. On Friday, the country reached 100 million people vaccinated with at least one dose, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s leading federal public health agency.

The Democratic President’s goal is for Americans to come together “in small groups” to celebrate the Fourth of July National Day. There are currently three licensed vaccines in the United States: Johnson & Johnson (one dose) and the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna (two dose) alliance.

Large influx into Florida

No age limit COVID-19 vaccination for adults began on Monday in Florida with a large influx of young people, as seen Efe at one of Miami’s largest vaccination centers.

Before sunrise, there was already a long line of cars with people ready to get vaccinated at the center on the north campus of Miami Dade College (MDC), which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). ) and it is the largest in South Florida. Between 250 and 300 cars, mostly with people in their 30s or 40s, had access to the center from the first hours of operation.

According to data from the Florida Department of Health, the age group with the most cases of covid-19 since the start of the pandemic is between 25 and 34 years, which accumulates more than 362,000 infections out of the more than two million recorded since 1 Run in the state.

(With information from the AP and AFP)

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