NEW: President Biden announces early achievement of 200 million shots. We were on pace not to reach this until September when we got here.
Tens of thousands of lives saved so far.
Now we must reach everyone 16 and over.
More than 50% of Americans and 80% of seniors have received their first shots.
This was 5% and 8% when Biden and Harris arrived.
And 80% of educators and school staff are vaccinated.
We have seen an 80% reduction in deaths of those 65 and older.
Time for this benefit to spread to everyone.
Now the eligibility rules are gone, 90% live within 5 miles of a vaccination site.
Hundreds of Americans are still dying each day and more and more young people are being hospitalized without vaccination.
It is time for working age adults to get vaccinated & do do it without losing pay.
President Biden calls on every employer to give time off with pay and there is a new tax credit for all employers <500 to give people time off. So it will not cost employers to give ppl time off.
"No working American should lose a single dollar" by taking time off to get vaccinated or take time off if they feel under the weather. -- @POTUS
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BREAKING: President Biden announces that by April 19, 90%+ of Americans over 16 will be eligible for a vaccine and live within 5 miles of a place to get a vaccination.
And 33 million vaccines available in the coming week.
Per the president's orders, vaccines will be available in 40,000 pharmacies AND announces new transportation and other assistance to seniors and Americans with disabilities.
By May 1, every American over 16 will be eligible for a vaccine.
COVID response is a massive national operational underway 9 weeks.
➡️ 1 in 3 adults, 70% of seniors w first shot
➡️ 76%+ of schools open, 1.2mm school staff vaccinated
➡️ 10s of millions of new at home/POC tests being produced
➡️ Vaccinations open to all 16+ on or before May 1
➡️ Landmark partnership w Merck and J&J to increase production
➡️ Global leadership w $4 billion to COVAX & vaccine sharing w/ Canada & Mexico
➡️ 22 new Fed vaccination centers, community health centers— serves 60% to people of color
➡️ Dramatic improvement in long term care
➡️ Thousands of new vaccinators, vaccination sites & hundreds of mobile clinics reaching 2.5 million shots/day
➡️ Significant increases in variance sequencing & guidelines for continued vaccine development
➡️ Doubled vaccine reimbursement
➡️ Vaccine confidence 20 points higher