100 Million COVID-19 Vaccines Administered ✅

This you can say is the second major, tangible milestone-- the early pledge to administer 100 million COVID vaccine doses within the first 100 days-- to be accomplished in the administration. Handling the COVID pandemic has been the number-one priority of the federal government in the past 2 months.

As of now, around 75 million Americans-- that's 1 in 4 -- have gotten at least one COVID vaccination. About 40 million have received 2 doses.

By the end of 2020, over 300,000 Americans had died from the coronavirus. If the amount of US deaths per capita had been in line with other countries, the total number of deaths would have been around 80,000.

A Quick Summary

• The US had no plan in place to distribute vaccines 2 months ago. The Trump admin did make investments in the research, development and production of vaccines however
• The previous admin had set a goal of 20 million vaccine doses by the end of 2020. At year’s end, it was 16 million
• Within hours of being sworn into office, President Biden signed an executive order requiring masks and social distancing on all federal property, and created the position of COVID-19 response coordinator
• Deployed FEMA and the national guard to convert gyms, stadiums and community centers into emergency vaccination centers
• Streamlined the delivery of vaccines to the individual states
• Coordinated with Johnson & Johnson + Merck to collaborate on a single-dose vaccine
• By the time Trump left office, the US was on pace to have enough vaccines to cover every US adult by the end of July. As of now, the US is on track to have enough doses for every US adult by the end of May
• The current admin set a goal of 1.5 million vaccinations per day. Currently it is over 2 million per day

What's Next

There are still many challenges and concerns for the future even as more people get vaccinated.

CNN has previously reported that the Biden team's most urgent concerns on Covid-19 include potential vaccine supply problems, coordination between federal and local governments, as well as funding, staffing and other resource needs for local governments. That is in addition to the emerging Covid variants, which the new White House -- in consultation with scientists and experts -- is watching warily.

Indeed the White House has ordered 100 million more vaccines in case another mass vaccination effort is needed

The passage of the American Rescue Plan should help get more people vaccinated. A large portion of the stimulus plan goes directly toward funding vaccination centers and to local governments to distribute vaccines

“Everything in the American Rescue Plan addresses a real need, including investments to fund our entire vaccination effort: More vaccines, more vaccinators, and more vaccination sites. Millions more Americans will get tested, including home testing. Schools will soon have the funding and resources to reopen safely, a national imperative.”

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan: “Not only do we have to vaccinate every American, but we need to build a public health system globally that detects and prevents the next pandemic.”

FEMA deployed to the border in response to overcrowding problem

As @CarbideAndCarbon pointed out there's been an increase in the amount of people attempting to migrate to the US in recent months, possibly due to a perception that their prospects would be better under this administration than the previous one now that the rhetoric around immigration has changed

Although the admin has made clear that most migrants attempting to cross the border will be turned away, their policy has been more lenient towards children and some young families who are more vulnerable

Typically a child at the border will first be picked up by Customs & Border Protection aka Border Patrol. Many of them have phone numbers and contact information. A lot of people coming to the border have family in the US. The process of streamlining a group of migrants from the border through CBP and into a better facility is usually less than 72 hours but I will get back to this. The point is, we already know Border Patrol are c***s but the facilities they have are NOT made to accommodate children long-term.

The longer-term buildings are run by the Department of Health and Human Services and I went into detail about them here. These are the ones that some dumbasses were incorrectly saying were cages being reopened.

The reason the buildings exist is to provide a temporary shelter for children while sponsors and families are looked over, because just releasing them out in the open has in the past led to things like human trafficking. The average amount of time spent in these shelters is less than 30 days

The problem is, the amount of migrants turning up at the border has only increased. There were almost 10,000 in the past month, with CBP picking up 500 kids a day. In order to keep up with the amount of people coming in, while still having to maintain COVID social distancing restrictions (!), they have had to open more facilities, and re-open and revamp ones that were previously closed. The stress on the system has caused children to spend longer inside the buildings than they are designed.

So they've authorized FEMA to provide emergency sheltering, transport, food, water and medical care.

"We will have, I believe by next month, enough of those beds to take care of these children who have no place to go"

In addition, the administration has been working on a revamped asylum system so that people in other countries do not have to travel all the way to the US border to find a safe place

Indeed the entire system is in need of reform, and it’s on the Democrats’ legislative agenda. The House recently passed a bill that would clear a path to citizenship for 2 million immigrants. As for President Biden’s immigration bill, which was sent in to Congress in the first week and would grant citizenship for 11 million immigrants, it’s still pending a vote.

I was thinking about making a megathread on just immigration since there’s a lot of interest in this topic

Whenre my student loans cancelled

when you work and pay them off.

but they should allow people to declare bankruptcy for it tho.

Nah biden said he canceling

What a stupid ass take

how? stop being entitled

How’s that being entitled? Higher education is literally a net positive for society in general

No one made you go to a school you couldnt afford and/or get scholarships for.

Tha GOAT will be fuming mad when he finds out about Europe

what about it?

With logic like this almost every college student would've never went to college

I like Biden but man this dude is old as dirt

69% of college students took out loans with an average of 29k. But if you taking out more than 20k you should look for a cheaper school or work first. People need to stop thinking they need to go out of state and stay in a dorm.

It came down to him or a 79 year old going up against a 74 year old. Pretty f***ed.

Lol half of the people I know with loans around that range stayed in state and half of those who did stay in state didn't dorm.

I went to the cheapest in state school, stayed home w/parents, worked 34 hours a week and still have 29k.

they couldve went to community college first two years and worked etc. Or done well in high school and got scholarships.

the average instate tuition is about 10k a year times 4 = 40k you could cut cost of first two years by doing community college. also working.

what school and what state?

Most of these people went to community college and have worked since high school lol

u think college students just try to find the most expensive school and go there or something?

End the silent filibuster

And working while in school doesn't mean you don't have to take out loans lol