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U.S. to establish thousands more vaccination sites within 3 weeks
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The US will add tens of thousands of vaccination sites, including 12 federally-run mass vaccination sites, in an effort to get a vaccine site within five miles of 90% of all Americans in the coming weeks, President Biden announced on Monday.
“In this race against the rapidly spreading virus as fast as we are going, we need to go faster,” the President said during an event at the White House. “So to make it easier for Americans to get vaccinated as the supply grows and vaccination eligibility expands, I'm directing my Covid team to ensure there is a vaccine site within five miles of 90% of all Americans by April the 19th, three weeks from today.”
There are currently around 17,000 pharmacies giving vaccine shots, Biden said, but that number will grow to nearly 40,000 within the next three weeks.
“That will more than double the number of pharmacies where you can go get vaccinated,” he added.
Biden said the new mass vaccination sites would allow “tens of thousands of people … to drive up, get a vaccine shot while on the car and leave and less than an hour.”
“Over 60% of the shots given at these sites goes to minority communities, because they're in minority communities. We have to reach out. They're the ones most affected by the vaccine – by both the vaccine but also by the pandemic,” the President said.
He also announced that “more aid” will be sent to states “to expand the opening more community vaccination sites. More vaccines, more sites, more vaccinators, all designed to speed our critical work.”
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