“Now it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, they are putting the economic recovery at risk, they are clogging up the hospitals: their refusal to get vaccinated is costing everyone”. Thus Joe Biden spoke of the Americans, a quarter of the eligible population, who still did not want to get vaccinated against Covid, thus creating problems for the country’s economy as well. “Do the right thing – he said again addressing them an appeal – get vaccinated, it can save your life and those around you”.
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60 million Americans will be able to have the recall
The audience of American citizens who will be able to receive the third dose of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is equal to 60 million people. Access to the recall, Biden explained, will be over 65, vulnerable people (such as, for example, obese and diabetics) and workers most at risk, such as health personnel, teachers or supermarket employees.
Inoculating a third dose of the vaccine will provide “the highest level of protection available at the moment,” Biden said, after the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of experts gave the green light for the recall. for the over 65 and vulnerable people. “We need the tools to beat Covid-19, if we unite as a nation and use the tools we have we can do it,” Biden said.
Whipped Migrants? Shameful, there will be consequences
Referring to images of Haitian migrants being whipped by officers on horseback in Texas, on the border with Mexico, Biden answered reporters’ questions by commenting: “It’s shameful. I promise those people will pay, there are investigations underway and there will be consequences. It is an embarrassment, but besides being an embarrassment it is dangerous, it is wrong, it sends the wrong message to the world, it sends the wrong message here, it is simply not who we are, ”added the White House tenant.