//Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine challenge, explained in 600 words

Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine challenge, explained in 600 words

President Joe Biden on the campaign trail in 2020. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

America’s vaccine rollout isn’t going well. Here’s how Biden can fix it.

As President Biden settles into the Oval Office, his immediate challenge is fixing America’s botched vaccine rollout.

The current vaccine campaign is not going well. Former President Donald Trump and his administration promised to get 20 million Americans vaccinated and 40 million doses out by the end of 2020. Three weeks into the new year, the country hasn’t reached either goal, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I’ve talked to a lot of experts over the past few weeks about what’s going wrong. They caution that a massive vaccine campaign was always going to be difficult, including in the US. But they point to one major thing Biden can do that