The US government has distributed 50 million, so 170 million more should be available soon.This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.There was sort of an odd situation when Joe Biden took office.
To hit Dr. Anthony Fauci's goal of administering a full vaccine course to every American who wanted one by the end of the summer, we would need to continue to increase the pace of vaccinations to about 2 million shots a day. If we gave out just a million shots a day, it would take us well into 2022 to get a full course to all Americans. And if we want to get people vaccinated faster to better get ahead of more-contagious virus variants, we'll have to go even faster than 2 million a day.
And we are already above the million-a-day"floor." Over the past week, the US have averaged 1.35 million doses administered per day, according toTell people the truth: The vaccines are great The Biden administration told states and other jurisdictions last week it would increase vaccine allocations by 16% to 10 million doses weekly, and it promises to maintain that pace for at least three weeks. This will allow states to plan around future deliveries and more freely administer the doses they have in their possession. Deliveries of 10 million doses a week are sufficient to sustain a pace of 1.3 million shots administered a day.
But there are reasons to think the pace of vaccination will and should get faster than that very soon.