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Last week, Anthony Fauci, MD, said that “virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated” in April.
But on Tuesday, the Biden administration changed the timeline for mass vaccinations to May, June, or July.
At a CNN town hall in Wisconsin, moderator Anderson Cooper asked President Joe Biden, “When is every American who wants it going to be able to get a vaccine?”
“By the end of July this year,” Biden replied. “We have — we came into office, there were only 50 million doses that were available. We have now — by the end of July we’ll have over 600 million doses — enough to vaccinate every single American.”