Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he’s bumping up his deadline by two weeks for states to make all adults in the U.S. eligible for coronavirus vaccines.
But even as he expressed optimism about the pace of vaccinations, he warned Americans that the nation is not yet out of the woods when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic.“Let me be deadly earnest with you: We aren’t at the finish line.
We still have a lot of work to do. We’re still in a life and death race against this virus,” Biden said in remarks at the White House.The president warned that “ new variants of the virus are spreading and they’re moving quickly.
Cases are going back up, hospitalizations are no longer declining.” He added that ”the pandemic remains dangerous,“ and encouraged.