In his first week in office, Joe Biden wants to send progress signals on the pandemic, while the numbers continue to run wild in the United States. The president has assured this Monday at the White House that within three weeks the daily vaccination rate will be one million people and that by the summer the country will be “well on track” in the goal of achieving herd immunity. “But before the curve declines, we will reach 600,000 dead,” he warned. The current death toll exceeds 420,000 and those infected reach 25 million, leaving the US in the first place of the countries affected by the pandemic.
The new administration is confident that 100 million vaccines will be administered within Biden’s first 100 days in the White House, but its goals are more in the medium term. “I believe that we will be able to administer 1.5 million doses a day and vaccinate a million people or more daily within three weeks,” said the Democrat at a press conference this afternoon in an auditorium of the White House. He also assured that any American who wants to receive a vaccine should be able to do so this spring, including children, although he warned that “it will be a logistical challenge that will exceed” any other operation that has been carried out in the country.
“I am sure that by the summer we will be well on track towards herd immunity,” said the president, sending a message of optimism amid the new spikes in contagion. Scientists are still working to determine the coronavirus herd immunity threshold. Estimates of the percentage of the population that needs to become immune in order for the spread of the virus to slow down and eventually stop currently ranges from 40% to 80% of the population.
In a clear contrast to its predecessor, Biden encourages the use of the mask at every public event. According to his medical advisers, if all citizens were to wear face masks between now and April, 50,000 lives could be saved. In a more economical field, but equally relevant for those affected, the president said he was willing to “negotiate” the amount of the direct check of $ 1,400 to the families that he proposed, within the framework of his ambitious stimulus package to combat the pandemic and rebuild the economy.
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