//Biden’s new Covid-19 vaccination goal won’t get the US to herd immunity before the fall

Biden’s new Covid-19 vaccination goal won’t get the US to herd immunity before the fall

President Joe Biden speaks after signing an executive order related to US manufacturing on January 25, 2021, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Some experts want Biden to go bolder.

President Joe Biden on Monday raised his Covid-19 vaccination goal to 1.5 million shots a day, up from 100 million in his first 100 days (or 1 million a day), following criticism that the previous goal wasn’t ambitious enough.

Even before Biden took office last Wednesday, his previous goal looked like a done deal — with the country averaging around 900,000 shots a day. Then, over the weekend, the US surpassed 1 million shots a day, before Biden’s policies and executive actions had any time to really sink in.

Even 1.5 million a day, which is enough to fully vaccinate 750,000 Americans with the two-shot vaccines, might not be fast