Biden says Pfizer s vaccine approval for kids 12-15 is âone more giant stepâ in ending pandemic
By Megan Ziegler
President Biden updates administrations COVID-19 response
On Tuesday, President Biden held a press conference to update his administrations COVID-19 response as well as taking reporter questions.
President Joe Biden encouraged adolescents and their parents Wednesday to get vaccinated as the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control is set to endorse the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for older children ages 12 to 15, one of the final steps toward making the shots widely available for the age group in an effort to speed up the return to schools.
President Biden is set to deliver remarks Wednesday as vaccination demand has sagged in some parts of the country - and as COVID-19 deaths have tumbled to the lowest level in 10 months.
Biden to speak on COVID-19 vaccination push as US deaths hit lowest level in 10 months
By Megan Ziegler
President Joe Biden will address the nation with the latest on his administration’s response to COVID-19 and ongoing vaccinations efforts.
Biden is set to deliver remarks Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. ET as COVID-19 deaths in the country have tumbled to the lowest level in 10 months.
COVID-19 deaths are now averaging around 600 per day in the U.S., with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and hitting zero on some days.
The last time deaths were this low was early July, nearly a year ago. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. topped out in mid-January at an average of more than 3,400 a day, just a month into the biggest vaccination drive in the nation s history.
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