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The United States began the year 2021, on Friday, crossing the threshold of twenty million confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the start of the epidemic on its soil, according to benchmark figures from Johns Hopkins University.
It also accounted for more than 346,400 deaths from the epidemic in the United States, making it the most affected country in the world.
These figures come at a time when an analysis by the US network “NBC” revealed that the virus vaccine distribution program, implemented by the administration of President Donald Trump, advances at a very slow pace, and may take almost 10 years vaccinate enough Americans. To control the epidemic.
Data from federal and state agencies shows that only about 2 million people have received the vaccine so far, most of them front-line healthcare workers and some nursing home residents, out of 11.5 million doses administered in the last two weeks.
Speaking to “CNBC” on Tuesday, President Trump’s former Food and Drug Administration commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb said: “I don’t think we can deliver the promised 20 million doses” this year.
For his part, US President-elect Joe Biden pledged on Tuesday to make unremitting efforts to combat the Corona virus immediately after taking office, while at the same time considering that President Trump’s vaccination campaign against the epidemic is “dangerously late”.
Biden said, according to “Agence France Presse”: “The Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is too late,” and promised that he will work “as hard as we can to go in the right direction.”
Health experts say the United States needs more than two vaccines to vaccinate more than 85 percent of the nation’s population.
Operation “Rap Speed” senior adviser Moncef Al-Salawi said earlier that the United States is expected to finish vaccinating 100 million people with the Corona vaccine by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos in association with ABC News, 8 in 10 Americans say they will get the vaccine, but only 40 percent of them say they will take it as soon as it is available to them.
While 44 percent of them said they would “wait a little longer” before receiving it. In the survey, only 15 percent said they would reject the vaccine entirely.
