Biden's administration to purchase 200mln new doses total of vaccines

  • from Pfizer and Moderna
  • increases the overall total to 600m
  • new doses expected to delivered by the US summer
  • weekly supply to states to rise 10mln from 8.6mln doses for the next 3 weeks

Biden speaking now:

  • We have recently discovered that vaccine program is in worse shape than we expected
  • millions more people to be vaccinated sooner than anticipated