Biden to the country: “On July 4th the United States will be able to regain normality”

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New York – “All American states and territories” will have to expand the right to receive Covid vaccines for every adult, over 18, no later than May 1st. And by July, to be precise by the Independence Day of July 4, the United States will be able to find a measure of normality. The recommendation, the informal order, came directly from President Joe Biden, who spoke to the nation. America, he said, is “on a war footing” against the pandemic. And the goals now unveiled, he stressed, are “much closer than we had anticipated”. At this rate, July 4, he added, could become a date to also claim “independence from the virus”.

A twenty-minute roll call

Biden, in his first evening speech to the country given from the East Room of the White House since the inauguration on January 20, raised the bar on the offensive against the coronavirus. He did so, speaking for 24 minutes, on the occasion of the anniversary of the pandemic, exactly one year after the World Health Organization officially declared the pandemic, which has cost the United States over half a million victims to date. Biden began by remembering the pain and devastation. “We have all lost something, a collective suffering and a collective sacrifice, a year full of lost lives,” he said. “But finding light in the dark is something very American,” he added, offering new, unprecedented glimpses of optimism.

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“Reasons to hope”

“I tell you about what will happen now. There is light at the end of the tunnel last year, ”he said, alluding to what“ the next phase ”of the battle against the virus. He warned that, despite the accelerated arrival of vaccines, “we cannot let our guard down and assume that a victory is inevitable.” He invited to maintain precautions, from social distancing to the use of masks, to avoid relapses and new risks of lockdown. Inoculating everyone will take time, he admitted. But there will be enough vaccines, after the administration repeatedly stepped up production and purchases of the three licensed vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, a prospect that was reflected in the cancellation in less than two months. white from Biden of the priority criteria for those who receive them. And the President declared that “together we will overcome this pandemic and we will enter a future that is secure and made of greater hope. There are real reasons to shoot, I promise you ”.

New actions on vaccines

Biden raised the curtain, in concrete terms, on new initiatives to intensify the vaccination campaign: new federal centers for mass inoculations, expansions of partnerships with pharmacies to distribute it, the use of thousands of soldiers and civil protection. The White House also said it is possible to use dentists, medical students and veterinarians for injections. Actual vaccinations, their nationwide logistics, remain, more than production, the challenge for the United States to solve. However, from May 1, the federal government will also launch a site to allow Americans to find out exactly where vaccines are available in the center closest to them. Biden also made a heartfelt appeal to the Americans on the safety of the vaccine, to believe doctors and scientists and to overcome the sometimes strongest skepticisms and fears in the most affected communities, the ethnic minorities.

A “special” 4th of July

If the efforts pay off, Biden said “by July 4 there is a good chance” that family and friends will return to “gather in the backyard and neighborhoods for barbecues and Independence Day celebrations.” The President continued that “after a long and hard year, this is going to make Independence Day something very special.” Although in the name of meetings still described as “small groups”.