Our President Joe Biden has a detailed plan to combat COVID-19.
Per his proposal, he wants to double the national investment in vaccinations to $20 billion.
He believes creating more vaccination sites and launching a public health task force will help to stop the spread of the virus.
He is using the Defense Production Act to push his new task into effect.
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With COVID-19 deaths rising to 4,000 per day, Biden wants to relieve the responsibility of the states to allocate distribution. Instead, he will use federal resources and plans to make the process quicker and more effective.
In Donald Trump’s administration, there were significant problems with shortage of supplies, lack of funding, vaccination distribution and resistance from healthcare workers.
All of which slowed the process.
It is estimated about 480 million doses need to be administered to achieve immunity of the virus in the U.S.
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With Biden’s plan, the U.S. expects a minimum of 200 million Pfizer and Moderna doses by March and another 200 million by June or July.
About 2 million doses would have to be administered every day to hit the 480 million mark by September 1.
Biden’s short-term goal is to get 100 million shots to 100 million Americans in his first 100 days in office. That means 1 million administered doses per day, for now.
This will be enough to dramatically control the spread.
The Center for Disease Control and the Biden administration wants to kickstart this process by pushing states to allow anyone over the age of 65 eligible to receive the vaccination in their first phase.
Biden also said that he intends to release all available vaccine vials which would effectively double the vaccine supply overnight.
However, there is no additional stockpile of vaccines.
Donald Trump’s administration secretly stopped holding back second doses last year, leaving the Biden administration to push companies like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson to speed up their rollout process.
Many health and government officials are optimistic in the ability of the Biden administration to combat the virus.
Biden believes he can extinguish the pandemic by vaccinating at least 75% of the population.
