recommendations for childcare providers and talked about president biden calling on states to open vaccinations to all adults by may 1. put the nation on a path to get closer to normal by the fourth of july. as many of you remember, on the president s first full day in office, he outlined a comprehensive strategy to beat this pandemic. we spent every day since then executing against that strategy. and we are making progress. as you can see on our weekly vaccination progress report, the current seven day average, the dark bar on the far right is 2.2 million shots per day. that is a new record case we will continue to build on. on inauguration day, only 8% of americans 65 and older had gotten there first vaccination. today, that number is nearly 65%. this is important because 80% of covid deaths have been individuals 65 and over. so, we are making progress, but there is more work to do. last night, americans heard the president say that all of us need to do our part and, if w
thing. teambeans.shop. i ll tweet out the link. if you want this hat, make me an offer. thank you for watching tonight. let s get to the big show. cnn tonight with the big show cnn tonight with the big show d. lemon. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a wore this today. i wore this one as well. this is scott beagle. he died in the marjory stoneman douglas school shooting. so, the mask makes us remember covid. and this for really amazing colleague and his entire family, team beans. i went there today. so, make sure everybody, you go there, you support it and it goes to supporting cancer foundation. and not one more child should have to deal with this. not one more family should have to deal with it. kids are going to lose but we can make a difference. the reason we did it, we care about our own always. but andrew and his wife, special people who fought a hell of a fight and really did it in an inspirational way. i ve never seen people and they re young too. i ve nev
this is a tough night. we mark one year of our nightmare collectively, right? here at cnn and our family, it s not just tough because what we ve all lived through with covid. the president was right. we need to be the answer for one another, and that is brought home in such painful variety today. yeah, it s a year for all of us. but there s something else today should have been. today would also have been the first birthday for a very special little girl to us, francesca, known forever as beans. that s what they called her. the daughter of our dear friend and colleague, the brain behind the k-file, investigative genius. his wife, rachel, beans smiled bravely in the face of another health monster, a rare form of brain cancer. she fought. they fought. they moved. they did everything. they believed. they loved. inspired all of us. with what they were clear eyed and committed to. she didn t make it. she fought. she died on christmas eve. i remember it. i remember hearing about it
the u.s. will hit 100 million shots in arms and another date, may 1st, listen to this. all adult americans will be eligible to get a vaccine to later than may 1. let me be clear. that doesn t mean everyone is going to have that shot immediately. but it means you ll be able to get in line beginning may 1. and then there is july 4th when the president said he aims for the country to be able to gather safely once again with loved ones. how does the administration meet and exceed these markers. that is one major question. also when every adult is eligible for a ashot how do they make sure everyone gets that shot quickly and president biden wants families to be able to gathered with loved ones on july 4th. does he mean be able to travel to get together with loved ones? he may have some answers. we ll bring you when the briefing begins, we ll bring it to you when they start speaking. and a few hours from now, another big event at the white house. a ceremonial bill signing of th
have also said that this type of guidance is long overdue. nearly 60 million americans have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and more than 30 million americans are now fully vaccinated. and while the vaccine rollout has accelerated rapidly in recent days, the timing remains critical. the top health experts in the country say new infection rates have plateaued at a very high level after falling for several weeks. and highly transmissible variants continue to spread throughout the country even as states are starting to loosen restrictions and in some places completely remove any masking requirements. so there is a lot that we re waiting to get some more guidance, to hear some from the covid response team when they begin the briefing any moment now. joining me now is elizabeth cohen and dr. jorge rodriguez, a viral specialist. so elizabeth, this has been long awaited guidance that we ll be hearing. what do you know about the level of detail or how granular t