Biden accelerates, vaccines for 300 million Americans

Joe Biden pushes the accelerator and announces a series of new "wartime" initiatives against Covid. The first is the intention to order an additional 200 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, bringing the total to 600 million from the current 400 million. This will allow 300 million Americans, the entire adult population, to be vaccinated by the end of the summer, at most the beginning of the fall. An ambitious goal to be pursued by increasing deliveries to states to 10 million doses per week compared to the current 8.6 million. "This will allow millions of Americans to be vaccinated sooner than expected," Biden said, however, warning that it will still take months to vaccinate the majority of the population. Months during which the use of the mask is also crucial in light of the English, South African and Brazilian variants that "appear more transmissible". "Things will get worse before they get better," Biden repeats, reassuring states on certain delivery plans. Governors' biggest complaint so far has been that they don't have a detailed plan on vaccines delivered weekly. Biden promises that he will present their plans for a three-week timeframe to facilitate organization and perhaps speed up the inoculations by avoiding stockpiling for the second dose. The new maxi order of 200 million doses, however, may not have an effect in the short term, increasing the pressure on the administration that has just taken office and that has found itself facing a vaccine plan in a "worse condition" than it anticipated. In fact, orders do not translate closely into available vaccines. However, it will take some time to produce them for the two companies, which have obligations to respect for other countries as well.