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(Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images) President Joe Biden yesterday announced he is ramping up COVID-19 vaccine distribution to have 200 million doses delivered by the end of the summer. This is an additional 100 million doses Biden set as his goal for his first 100 days in office. In remarks yesterday, Biden directed COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zeints to work with the Department of Health and Human Services to increase the nations total supply.  "And we believe that well soon be able to ...

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President-elect Biden says he would set up federal COVID-19 vaccine centers • 5 min read Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters President-elect Joe Biden said he wants to set up federal vaccination centers and make more money available to expand states efforts as parts of a "more aggressive" approach to making COVID-19 vaccines available to the general public. Biden said his administration could rely more on the Federal Emergency Management Agency as well a...

Serious. on almost a lighter note, to the world of health care. yesterday was a big day. the president said it and kathleen sebelius backed him up, were going to make the end of november, by november 30 were going to get things working and working well. they did cite yesterday a series of improvements when it comes to obamacare. >> in fact, kathleen sebelius is writing the pages of "usa today" today that when we launched the website we messed up, but we fixed it. we made dramatic improvements. e...

Everybody basically knew the ship was going down but no one wanted to admit it because the white houses political game to rumble on no matter what and create facts on the ground and sign people up, say to the critics, get over it, this thing is reality. martha: what about down the road? it is working better. 800,000 users daily according to jeff zeints can come on to the website. theyre trying to do 50,000 at a time. they say they have 90% stability rate as far as that goes right now. what about...

And we are aware of one open source action attempting to perpetrate a denial of service attack against healthcare.gov site that has been unsuccessful. >> reporter: we also heard today many times there will always be vulnerabilities at healthcare.gov but that the security testing will never stop. jenna. jenna: peter doocy live at the white house. peter, thank you. jon: well, one of the presidents senior advisors is now on the defensive. valerie jarrett promises outreach to business leaders on oba...

Problems? >> yes. >> could you describe that a little bit. >> yes, as of last week when jeff zeints joined us for this short-term project we asked him to lead a sort of management team. we have pulled in all of our contractors as well as additional talent that they may have available. we have talked to tech folks in and out of the private sector and insurance, some of their tech experts, to get all eyes and ears, made a full assessment, developed a plan for fixes along the way. have a punch list...