President Joe Biden announced Thursday evening that he will direct states to make all adults, ages 18 and up, eligible for the coronavirus vaccines by May 1.
Biden, in his first primetime address to the nation, also said that Americans should hopefully be able to gather in small groups to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Biden delivered the announcements as he marked the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns due to the Covid, reflecting with anguish on the pandemic’s devastation while offering a glimpse that better days could soon be coming — if Americans don’t get complacent.
“If we all do our part, this country will be vaccinated soon, our economy will be on the mend, our kids will be back in school, and we’ll have proven once again that this country can do anything,” Biden said.
Biden’s address from the East Room of the White House began just after 8 p.m. ET, and lasted about 25 minutes.
The primetime event came hours after Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, which he had aggressively pushed Congress to pass during his first 50 days in office.
The speech also came as the United States administered a record number of vaccines over the weekend. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administered 2.9 million vaccines on Saturday, a record, and 2.4 million on Sunday, according to the agency’s latest tally. The numbers are subject to revisions as more data becomes available to public health officials.
Biden is set to embark on a nationwide tour next week to tout the first major legislative accomplishment of his administration. The president will depart Tuesday for Delaware County in Pennsylvania, an electoral swing state that was key to Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump.
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