President Biden Moves Up Vaccine Timeline, Says There Will Be Enough Vaccines By May

President Joe Biden delivered a dose of good news Tuesday afternoon saying that vaccine production is running two months ahead of schedule (watch above). He says “This country will have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May, that’s progress, important progress.”

This announcement came after the White House announced: a breakthrough collaboration between Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and the federal government to ramp up vaccine production.” The AP reports:

With the bolstered supply, Biden also announced he would be using the powers of the federal government to direct all states to prioritize vaccinating teachers, and said the federal government would provide the doses directly through its pharmacy program. He challenged states to administer at least one dose of the vaccine to all teachers by the end of March as part of his administration’s efforts to reopen more schools across the nation.