{"id":33294,"date":"2021-03-25T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33294"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:57:16","slug":"100-million-shots-in-100-days-in-200-million-shots-in-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33294","title":{"rendered":"100 million shots in 100 days. In: 200 million shots in 100 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has a new vaccination goal after passing the old one: 200 million shots in the first 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>During his first official press briefing, Biden laid out his new target after the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xppsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddhscgj_rrvcggnrnpcvcvtcjtkc.html?a=&amp;b=37875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xppsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqddhscgj_rrvcggnrnpcvcvtcjtkc.html?a%3D%26b%3D37875&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616797218436000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG-sJeUmFLByzxFrjP-2qHlrPuBAQ\">reached his original goal<\/a>\u00a0of 100 million vaccinations on Friday, the president\u2019s 59th day in office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s right: 200 million shots in 100 days,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I know it&#8217;s ambitious, twice our original goal. But no other country in the world has even come close, not even close to what we are doing. I believe we can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With more than 130 million vaccinations administered, the U.S. would need to give fewer than 70 million vaccine doses in the next 35 days to meet the target.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On track to meet it:\u00a0<\/strong>The U.S. currently has a seven-day average of about 2.5 million doses per day, which would allow the country to reach 200 million by April 23 \u2014 a week before the 100-day deadline \u2014 according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/scvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbbvlpjl_rrvcggnrnpcvcvtcjtkc.html?a=&amp;b=37875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/scvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshbbvlpjl_rrvcggnrnpcvcvtcjtkc.html?a%3D%26b%3D37875&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616797218436000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHa_cHuvY6YiEpcgroFM9uVyOJ26Q\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; President Biden has a new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33295,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294\/revisions\/33295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}