President Biden promised Tuesday to rapidly increase the number of COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S., saying that “100 million shots in 100 days is not the endpoint; it’s just the start.”
“We’re not stopping there,” Biden said in an address from the State Dining Room at the White House. “The end goal is to beat COVID-19. And the way we do that is to get more people vaccinated, which means we have to be ready, after we hit the … goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.” He noted that 100 million shots doesn’t mean that 100 million people will be fully vaccinated, since the vaccines currently authorized for emergency use each require two shots per person.
