Thursday 11 March 2021

Biden expected to announce all adult Americans will be eligible for vaccine by May 1

Joe Biden vaccine — President-elect Joe Biden receives his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.
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All adults in the US will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1, Biden will announce Thursday.
Biden is expected to direct states to make all adults in the US eligible for the vaccine "no later than May 1," according to a senior administration official.
"The fight is far from over," Biden will say during a Thursday night address. "We still have a lot of work to do."
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All adult Americans will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce during his prime-time address Thursday night that he will direct states, tribes, and territories to make all adults in the US eligible for the vaccine "no later than May 1," according to a senior administration official.

"The fight is far from over. We still have a lot of work to do," the president is set to say in his speech Thursday. "But together, unified, we can defeat this pandemic and we can all celebrate a more normal Fourth of July with families and friends."

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