{"id":108573,"date":"2021-01-15T22:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=108573"},"modified":"2021-01-15T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:13:49","slug":"biden-aims-for-100m-vaccines-in-first-100-days-as-cdc-warns-super-covid-will-be-dominant-strain-by-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/biden-aims-for-100m-vaccines-in-first-100-days-as-cdc-warns-super-covid-will-be-dominant-strain-by-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden aims for 100M vaccines in first 100 days as CDC warns 'super-Covid' will be dominant strain by March"},"content":{"rendered":"

JOE Biden is aiming to get 100million Americans vaccinated in the first 100 days of his presidency, as the CDC warned "super-Covid" may be the dominant strain by March.<\/p>\n

The president-elect announced his coronavirus plan in a press conference on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n


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"The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a dismal failure so far,\u201d\u00a0Biden said, speaking from Wilmington, Delaware.<\/p>\n

He admitted that "things will get worse before they get better."<\/p>\n

"And the policy changes we are going to be making, they\u2019re going to take time to show up in the Covid statistics," he added.<\/p>\n

Biden said Americans will face "a very dark winter," but emphasized he's hopeful that high goals can help ease the clutch Covid has on the nation.<\/p>\n


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"Truthfully, we remain in a very dark winter. Infection rates are up to 34%. More people are being hospitalized because of COVID than ever before. We're up to between 3 and 4,000 deaths per day."<\/p>\n

Biden said: "I'm convinced we can get it done and this is a time to set big goals, to pursue them with courage and conviction because the health of the nation is literally at stake."<\/p>\n

If necessary, his team said they'll invoke the Defense Production Act to ramp up vaccine supply, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n

Vaccine supplies have been short as Covid cases continue to climb.<\/p>\n

Biden's plan came as the CDC warned in a new study that an infectious "super Covid" may be the dominant strain in coming months.<\/p>\n

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Known as "B.1.1.7," the CDC said the strain "has the potential to increase the U.S. pandemic trajectory in the coming months," according to models.<\/p>\n

"Multiple lines of evidence indicate that B.1.1.7 is more efficiently transmitted than are other SARS-CoV-2 variants," the CDC said in the report.<\/p>\n

"The modeled trajectory of this variant in the U.S. exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March."<\/p>\n

On Friday, global deaths surpassed 2million in just over a year since the pandemic gained a foothold.<\/p>\n

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Biden also took the chance during his press conference to slam Republicans for not wearing masks when insurrectionists who sieged the Capitol.<\/p>\n

"What the hell is the matter with it's time to grow up… For god's sake, wear a mask," Biden said.<\/p>\n

"If not for yourself, for your loved ones, for your country," he seethed.<\/p>\n

More to follow…<\/em><\/p>\n

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