Kamala Harris goes to a Black community in D.C. for her COVID-19 vaccine
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration for falling “far behind” its pledge to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of the year, and renewed his own ambitious promise to distribute 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office.
In a pre-New Year’s address near his home in Wilmington, Del., he pleaded with Americans to step up their vigilance against COVID-19, warning of bleak weeks ahead as the nation’s death toll rises. Just days after President Trump signed a $1.4-trillion relief package, Biden said he would seek more money from Congress to put children in school next fall and increase vaccine production and distribution to fulfill his 100-days promise.
but only 2.1 million people had actually been given the shot. Spokespeople for the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force did not immediately respond to a request for comment. As part of that effort, earlier on Tuesday Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was inoculated with the first of two Moderna doses at a hospital in the heart of Washington’s Black community.Biden said he would use the Defense Production Act to force companies to produce more vaccine supplies and protective gear, and would require that masks be worn in federal facilities and during interstate travel on airplanes. He said he would ask mayors and governors to impose their own mandates.
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