White House Concedes <br />It Will Narrowly Miss , July 4th Vaccination Goal.<br />In May, President Joe Biden announced his administration's goal of getting 70 percent of Americans <br />at least partially vaccinated by July 4.<br />In May, President Joe Biden announced his administration's goal of getting 70 percent of Americans <br />at least partially vaccinated by July 4.<br />If current vaccination <br />trends in the U.S. persist <br />over the next two weeks.<br />67 percent of Americans will have received <br />at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot.<br />I give credit to the Biden administration for putting in place a mass vaccination program for adults that did not exist, Dr. Paul A. Offit, Children’s Hospital of <br />Philadelphia, via 'The New York Times'.<br />Experts warn that waning vaccination numbers <br />could result in a fall or winter surge of the virus.<br />There is a danger, a real danger, that if there is a persistence of a recalcitrance to getting vaccinated that you could see localized surges, Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Senior Advisor, via 'The New York Times'.<br />Dr. Anthony Fauci also warned of the Delta variant, <br />which now comprises around 20 percent of all new <br />COVID-19 cases in the U.S.<br />Dr. Fauci reiterated that the 70 percent mark <br />“is not the goal line, nor is it the end game.”.<br />Recent data shows a daily average of more <br />than 11,000 new cases of the coronavirus <br />were reported in the last week
