Biden Promised 100 Million Vaccinations in the first 100 Days of His Presidency

President-elect Joe Biden said he plans to actively fight COVID-19 after taking office and achieve 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days of his presidency. Biden also criticized the outgoing Trump administration on Tuesday, saying that it did not provide adequate vaccinations. "The Trump administration's plan to distribute vaccines is far behind," Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware. He promised, on taking office on January 20, "to move Heaven and Earth so that we move in the right direction." According to Johns Hopkins University, the coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 335,000 Americans. The number of cases in the United States with this virus was 19.3 million. The Trump administration estimated that 20 million Americans would be vaccinated by the end of December. However, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that as of Tuesday, with three days left in 2020, only about 2.1 million people had received their first double-dose vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading US infectious disease expert and chief medical adviser to the president, told CNN: “We have definitely not reached the numbers we would like to have at the end of December. We are below the level where we want to be."