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Biden says the gov't will begin a door-to-door push for vaccination after failing to meet 4th of July goal
President Joe Biden said that his administration would implement a door-to-door effort to encourage more Americans to get vaccinated after failing to meet his goal for the Fourth of July.
Biden made the announcement in a speech on Tuesday outlining how the government would move forward to improve the nationwide vaccination rate.
"Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and often times door to door— literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people, protected from the virus," said Biden.
"Look, equity, equality, it remains at the heart of our responsibility of ensuring the communities that have been hardest hit by the virus, have the information and the access to get vaccinated," he continued. "So, as we shift from these centralized mass vaccination sites, we're doing thousands of people a day, we're going to access close to your community, close to home, conveniently, and location you're already familiar with."
The Biden administration failed to meet their goal to vaccinate at least 70% of U.S. adults by the Fourth of July after new vaccinations slowed as more states reopened their economies.
About 47% of adults in the U.S. are fully vaccinated. Health officials say a 70%-90% vaccination rate is needed in order to fight the pandemic successfully, including the emerging variants.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated the door-to-door plan during Tuesday's media briefing.
"One, targeted community by community door-to-door outreach to get remaining Americans vaccinated by ensuring they have the information they need on how both safe and accessible the vaccine is," explained Psaki.
Some critics of Biden responded by comparing the door-to-door effort to the terror campaign against the Jews under the Nazi regime in Germany.
"Not only is this utterly ridiculous. It is totally un-Constitutional and 100% Nazi Germany," responded Pastor Greg Locke.
"Sending Joe Biden's Gestapo door-to-door to check up on non-vaccinated Americans is really a recipe for disaster," tweeted Lavern Spicer, a Florida Republican congressional candidate.
Here's more about the new Biden vaccination effort:
White House Pursuing Door-To-Door Outreach To Get Americans Vaccinatedwww.youtube.com
California is dead last in administering COVID-19 vaccine after Alabama pulls ahead in key metric
The state of California is dead last according to one metric of vaccination after Alabama pulled ahead of the nation's current COVID-19 hotspot.
That measure is the percentage of coronavirus vaccine dosages used, and California comes in at 37.3% for the latest week. That's an improvement from 27.5% usage the week prior, but still puts the state worst in the nation.
That insight comes by way of the vaccination tracker from Bloomberg News where vaccinations rates are updated and documented from all the states.
The San Francisco Gate reported that California is the only one among the six largest states in the union to have a vaccination rate below 40%.
The Biden administration had made it a goal to vaccinate 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of the president's term, but critics have noted that this is not much of a goal since it would likely be met at the current pace of vaccinations.
Sources from the Biden administrations also attempted to claim that a vaccination plan from the former Trump administration was virtually non-existent and that they had to work from scratch. That accusation was quickly refuted by some journalists who called it an exaggeration and later by Dr. Anthony Fauci during a media briefing on Thursday.
When President Biden was challenged by a reporter about the relatively low bar set for vaccinations by his administration, he snapped at him and walked away.
"When I announced it, you all said it was not possible. C'mon, give me a break man!" he said. "It's a good start, 100 million."
KGTV reported that health officials in California were frustrated because they had built the infrastructure to administer the vaccine dosages, but there simply weren't enough to go around.
Here's more about vaccinations in California:
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