//Biden’s speech promised Covid-19 vaccines for all US adults in May. It’s really possible.

Biden’s speech promised Covid-19 vaccines for all US adults in May. It’s really possible.

US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver an address to the nation on the anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2021.  | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19 vaccines truly are coming for everyone soon.

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that all adults in the US will be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine by May 1. “All adult Americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than May 1,” Biden said. “That’s much earlier than expected.”

Biden clarified that adults won’t all be able to get a vaccine right away, but they will at least be able to get in line. Even then, he said the country will have enough vaccine supply for all adults by the end of May — a