Biden sets a new goal of the US administering 200 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days

• President Biden set a new goal of administering 200 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days.
• The United States has administered over 130 million doses as of Wednesday, according to the CDC.
• Over a quarter of Americans have been partially vaccinated and 14% have been fully vaccinated.

During his first televised news conference on Thursday, President Joe Biden set a new goal of the United States administering 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by his 100th day in office.

The United States has administered over 130.4 million doses of the vaccine as of Wednesday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Over 85 million Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 46.3 million have received two doses, making for 25.7% who have been partially vaccinated and 14% who have been fully vaccinated.

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The figure covers doses in Pfizer-BioNTech's and Moderna's two-shot regimens and Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine, all of which have been granted emergency-use authorization by the Food & Drug Administration.

Biden had initially set a goal of 100 million doses in his first 100 days, but is now increasing the objective to 200 million after meeting the 100 million mark on March 19.

Biden's 100th day in office will be April 30.

Currently, the United States is administering nearly 2.5 million vaccine doses per day, according to The New York Times.

The Biden administration has recently made significant investments in the US's vaccine supply. It plans to procure enough vaccines for all American adults by the end of May, and brokered a partnership between pharmaceutical rivals Johnson & Johnson and Merck to manufacture doses of the J&J vaccine at a higher pace.

On March 11, in his first prime-time address to the American people, the president announced that the administration would direct states and localities to make every adult eligible to get vaccinated by May 1.