President Biden To Announce All Americans Eligible For Covid Vaccine By April 19
Looking to get vaccinated? Well, your chance may soon come up as President Biden is expected to announce Tuesday that he is moving up his deadline for states to make all American adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by almost two weeks.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that he will be making the bump, instead of Biden’s original deadline of May 1.
“The President will announce officially later this afternoon that we’ve reached 150 million shots in arms since entering government and that by April 19 all adult Americans will be eligible to get the vaccine,” Psaki said at a White House briefing. Psaki continued: “That doesn’t mean they will get it that day — it means they can join the line that day if they have not already done that beforehand.”
“It means that everybody will be eligible to go to their local pharmacy, go to their community health center, mobile vaccination site mass vaccination site on the date and moving forward,” Psaki said.
While explaining why Biden was announcing the new timeframe when nearly every state has already moved up eligibility to the April date, Psaki explained: “He is certainly confirming for the public that everyone is eligible around the country,” Psaki said. “That is a great deal of clarity. They don’t have to go to their local state website and see when they’re eligible, they know that they are eligible on April 19.”
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