South Court Auditorium
3:19 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all. Dr. Fauci, thanks for your leadership, thanks for being here.
Two weeks ago, I spent some time with you and Dr. Francis Collins excuse me the Director of the National Institute of Health, at NIH, and gave me a tour of the Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland. And it’s the place where our top scientists spend years researching and developing vaccines and treatments of all kinds of for all kinds of viruses.
The brilliant team there made possible the rapid deployment and development of COVID-19 vaccines, and they’re truly remarkable. And this administration will follow the science to deliver more breakthroughs.
Biden marks 50 million vaccine doses but cautions there’s a ‘long way to go’
President Joe Biden on Thursday commemorated 50 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered since he took office, using it as a measuring stick against his promise to put 100 million shots in people’s arms in his first 100 days. But he also warned there’s “a long way to go” before life will return to normal.
“The more people get vaccinated, the faster we’re gonna beat this pandemic,” Biden said. “We’re moving in the right direction, though, despite the mess we inherited from the previous administration, which left us with no real plan to vaccinate all Americans.”