Biden announces 90 percent of adults to be eligible for vaccine by April 19

In addition to his warning about reopenings, President Biden announced Monday that 90 percent of U.S. adults will be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine and will have a vaccination site within 5 miles of where they live by April 19.

How he’ll do it: Biden announced in a speech Monday afternoon that he will double the number of pharmacies in the federal vaccination program, from 17,000 to 40,000.

Progress had been expected as supply ramps up: Biden had previously set a goal of all U.S. adults being eligible for the vaccine no later than May 1. As supply ramps up, many states have opened up eligibility to all adults well ahead of that date, something that experts had expected given the increasing number of doses available.