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.