--- title: "Biden Commits to Vaccinating 300 Million Americans by End of Summer" description: "President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he's committed to vaccinating 300 million Americans by the end of summer, an extremely ambitious timeline." date: "2021-01-27" modified: "2021-01-27" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/biden-commits-vaccinating-300-million-summer" categories: - "Developments" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "coronavirus" - "covid19" - "pfizer" - "vaccine" - "vaccines" --- # Biden Commits to Vaccinating 300 Million Americans by End of Summer ![President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he's committed to vaccinating 300 million Americans by the end of summer, an extremely ambitious timeline.]() *\Image: Gage Skidmore\* President Joe Biden made a bold commitment on Tuesday, [promising that the United States]() will vaccinate 300 million residents against the coronavirus by the end of summer. It's an extremely ambitious timeline, and there are no guarantees he'll succeed. But if the country pulls it off, Americans will finally have a chance of returning to a semblance of normal life. "To a nation waiting for action, let me be clearest on this point: Help is on the way," Biden said on Tuesday after announcing that the US has ordered another 200 million vaccine doses. He also promised to dramatically increase distribution within just days. To date, 71.3 million shots have been administered worldwide, [according to *Bloomberg*](). The US accounts for roughly 24.5 million of those — a solid start, but a very long way from 300 million, which would be nearly the entire population. Vaccine distribution efforts across the country have encountered several major hurdles, with dwindling supplies forcing healthcare workers to cancel [thousands of vaccination appointments](). "I wish I could tell you there’s plenty of vaccine and we can fill all these endless amounts of appointments," David Kessler, Biden’s top vaccine expert, told *STAT* last week. "We can’t. It’s going to take us months to have enough supply." The news comes after Biden announced [sweeping changes]() to the country's approach to battling COVID last week. The president signed several new executive orders, among which was a mandate for all Americans to wear masks in public for the next 100 days. There is some good news as well: According to preliminary real-world data collected by Israeli health officials, Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine is [proving to be highly effective]()— just as promised. ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()