Biden Finally Stops Lowballing Vaccine Goals
Starting with a promise to deliver 100 million shots in the first 100 days ensured an easy political win. The next steps will be riskier.
Once more, with feeling.
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President Joe Biden received, and deserved, a fair amount of ridicule for his less-than-ambitious coronavirus vaccination goals during his first 100 days in office (I contributed on Twitter). Both his initial goal of delivering 100 million shots and his subsequent upward revisions only required existing trends to continue during a period in which more vaccine was becoming available. Biden and his administration deserve plenty of credit for the vaccine rollout, but the public goals were … sort of silly. Granted, it’s always smart for presidents to establish goals that they know they can meet, but this was a little too much underpromising.