Biden reveals efforts to get Americans vaccinated on July 4 | | Coronavirus News Plague
US President Joe Biden wants 70% of Americans to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 vaccine for a ‘free summer’.
United States President Joe Biden has announced a one-month trial 70 percent Americans were vaccinated on July 4, Independence Day.
Speaking during good meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Biden said his administration had worked with local governments, federal agencies and the American people to “remove all barriers” in order to achieve the goal.
“America will start a holiday very different from last summer,” Biden said.
“Freedom Summer, Summer Summer, Summer Summit and Fun – the entire American Summer this country deserves for the long, long and dark summer we have all endured.”
Although about 52% of older adults in the U.S. are already vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. President encouraged older people under the age of 40 to receive more vaccines.
More than 595,000 people have died from coronavirus across the US, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University.
To encourage more people to get vaccinated, Biden said in June, vaccination centers such as pharmacies provide jabs for longer hours, childcare services will be provided to parents, and Uber and Lyft can provide free riders to and from stops.
“It’s easier than ever to get vaccinated,” he said, adding that the government would work with barbers and barbers to reach out to ethnic groups.
“Local barber, stylists – are the best vaccine promoters in the area, providing information to clients, keeping them on time, and even using their businesses as a vaccine,” Biden said.
Biden said cases of COVID-19, as well as hospitalization and mortality associated with coronavirus, have dropped dramatically as a result of vaccination. Twelve U.S. states have already reached a peak of 70%, he added, with many more expected by the end of this week.
The US has issued an emergency permission three vaccines – Pfizer, Moderna and one Johnson & Johnson gun – and Americans over 12 years they are also eligible for vaccination.
A woman is receiving COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [File: Hannah Beier/Reuters]
Biden resumed work in January promising to do more to end the COVID-19 epidemic than his predecessor, Donald Trump, who has been criticized for reducing the risk of the disease and not doing enough to keep it afloat.
Biden also said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband Doug Emhoff, and First Lady Jill Biden will travel around the country “on a national vaccination trip”.
“We want everyone across the region to come together and finish it,” he said. “I promise you we can do this.”
