Today, Jeff Zients, White House COVID-19 coordinator, announced that among adults age 30 and older, 70% have met President Joe Biden's goal of receiving at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine before the Fourth of July."We got here because the president treated this as a wartime effort," Zients said, explaining that among adults over age 45, 75% have had at least one dose.
In total, since Biden took office, 150 million vaccine doses have been administered, and now 56% of Americans are fully vaccinated against the virus, he said.But, Zients warned, younger Americans now need to do their part to get the shot.
Biden's goal was to have all Americans age 18 and up have at least one dose by July 4; now Zients said that goal will be met for only