reported in a single day. hospitals facing a crisis of epic proportions. 100 million shots in our first 100 days in office. we re on day one. with full fda approval, johnson & johnson s vaccine will go into americans s arms. the third vaccine in the pandemic arsenal. get vaccinated. the vaccine that s available to you, get that vaccine. all adult americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than may 1. in new york city where people getting vaccinated are able to enjoy some live music in the same space that served as a field hospital just a few short months ago. a tragically milestone in the battle against the coronavirus. actually, this is globally. the death toll has topped 3 million people. more than 570,000 americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus, that s nearly 20% of the worldwide total. reporter: with less than a third of the country fully vaccinated, right now some
took the oath of office in january, he s had to face challenges known and unknown. covid, afghanistan, the economy, and climate change. but with all of that on the agenda, was he able to keep the promises that got him elected in the first place? nbc correspondent monica alba takes a look. reporter: every year a president is in office tests the power of promise, marked with campaign pledges kept and those still unfulfilled. we re going to keep up the fight until we get it done. reporter: before joe biden was even sworn in, he knew the coronavirus pandemic would largely define the beginning of his term. to heal, we must remember. reporter: honoring the hundreds of thousands dead on the eve of his inauguration. this is democracy s day, a day of history and hope. the biden-harris administration launching a massive effort to get americans vaccinated. it s time to act. we can reduce suffering in this
starting to turn down government shipments due to lack of demand. new cdc data shows 8% of people have missed their second short moderna or pfizer vaccines. our goal by july 4th is to have 70% of adult americans at least one shot. pfizer s emergency use authorization now clears the way for 17 million children to immediately get vaccinated. kids 12 to 15 years old, mostly middle and high school students now qualify. if you get the shot, you basically can ditch the mask nearly everywhere, the cdc says. america is on a rebound, new covid cases rebound since last summer. this year it s going to be a big summer. the delta variant first discovered in india, could soon become the dominant strain in the u.s. so far, only 53% of the country is vaccinated. some states are only hitting
conclusion about vaccine mandates. i didn t have much of a choice in the matter, that i was being forced to do something, to put something into my body. i felt that what they were doing, what they have done, is they basically held for ransom your health insurance, your benefits, your livelihood, your career in some cases. some promising news, of course, this afternoon, authorizing the pfizer vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds. they signed off for vaccines for all adults. president biden plans to speak to the americans. what is it about this variant that worries you? what we ve seen is this kind of very rapid rise in infections, and we ve seen that in a part of the country in a population where we thought that people had a lot of immunity, and the fact that this virus is now spreading so rapidly and so
single day. hospitals are facing a crisis of epic proportions. 100 million shots in our first 100 days in office. we re on day 1. with full fda approval, johnson & johnson s vaccine will be the third go into arms. get vaccinated. the vaccine that s available to you, get that vaccine. all adult americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than may 1. reporter: in new york city where people are getting vaccinated are now able to enjoy some live music in the same space that served as a field hospital just a few short months ago. a tragic milestone in the battle against the coronavirus. this is globally. the death toll has toppled a staggering 3 million people. more than 575,000 people have lost their lives to the coronavirus. that s nearly 20% of the worldwide total. reporter: some starts are