Biden will move up deadline for states to open COVID-19 vaccines to all adults

President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce that he needs states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccines by April 19, taking practically two weeks off his earlier Might 1 deadline. 

The Biden administration has been working to ramp up availability of COVID-19 vaccines, together with growing the variety of pharmacies within the federal vaccine program from 17,000 to almost 40,000 shops. The federal government can be working to open a dozen extra federally run mass vaccinations websites. In March, Biden mentioned the US was on observe to have sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccine for each grownup in America by the tip of Might. 

In whole, greater than 167 million vaccines doses have been administered in the US, in keeping with numbers from John Hopkins College, with over 48 million individuals being totally vaccinated. Three coronavirus vaccines have been rolled out within the US — two-shot vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna in addition to a one-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson — after being licensed for emergency use by the Meals and Drug Administration. 

Biden is scheduled to go to a vaccination web site in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday and later to ship remarks on the state of vaccinations throughout a briefing on the White Home. 

This is the place to get a COVID-19 shot and methods to observe what number of vaccines can be found in your state.