However, this Sunday Mr Biden was questioned about whether this current pace would be enough for the nation of roughly 330 million people.
In an interview, CBS News Host Norah O’Donnell claimed “it’s going to take almost a year” before 75 percent of US citizens receive a jab, adding: “Can we wait that long?”
Mr Biden said “we can’t,” and claimed his administration had come into a poorly-handled pandemic by Donald Trump.
Joe Biden said he wanted to ramp up the US vaccine rollout (Image: Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty)
Mr Biden added: “One of the disappointments was, when we came into office, is the circumstance relating to how the [Trump] administration was handling Covid was even more dire than we thought.
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