Biden Admin Falls Short Of July 4th Goal To Have 70 Percent Of Americans Vaccinated

With the Delta variant threatening to become the dominant strain of coronavirus in the United States, fewer Americans have gotten vaccinated than the Biden administration had hoped by July 4th.

CNN reports that twenty states have reached the administration’s goal to have 70 percent of adults vaccinated by the July 4th holiday. However, the administration acknowledged that they would likely fall short of their goal last month, as the rate Americans are receiving the vaccine has slowed.

The administration did come close to its goal of vaccinating 160 million people by the holiday. As of Saturday, federal data shows 157 million adults are fully vaccinated.

“As a nation, as a whole, we are doing very well,” top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

The US saw its highest vaccination rate in mid-April when the seven-day averaged topped 3.3 million doses daily. During that time, 1.8 million new people became fully vaccinated each day.