United States: July 4 marks the first failure of the Biden administration on vaccination
US President Joe Biden at the White House on June 29, 2021. WIN MCNAMEE GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
Text by: RFI Follow
2 min
The White House promises to celebrate the country's independence with great fanfare with a reception of a thousand people.
Yet elsewhere, fireworks and parades have been canceled in several cities.
For example in Miami, Florida, to avoid too large gatherings.
It must be said that the objectives of the Biden administration in terms of vaccination have not been achieved and that the variants call into question the optimism of recent months.
Publicity
Read more
This is a first failure for Joe Biden who had made this rise in the importance of collective immunization one of the priorities of his early mandate.
The president wanted, on July 4, that 70% of people over 18 had received at least one dose of one of the three authorized vaccines.
It will take "a
few more weeks,
" concedes the White House, to achieve this goal.
For now, the figure is closer to 65%.
About 100 million people have yet to receive a single dose, and the supply of vaccines far exceeds demand.
With strong disparities between the two coasts of the United States and the rural areas, in other words, between the states with majority Democrats and the states with a majority Republican.
In some counties, less than 30% of residents are vaccinated and this worries health authorities, because after
July 4 largely at home in 2020
many Americans intend to resume good old habits this year.
Namely, celebrate independence by going on vacation.
Some 48 million Americans are expected to travel by Monday, a 40% jump from last year.
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
United States
Vaccines
Joe biden
Coronavirus