2:21 p.m. ET, May 26, 2021
10 US states have reached Biden s goal of vaccinating 70% of adults against Covid-19, CDC data shows
From CNN s Deidre McPhillips
A member of the U.S. Armed Forces administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA community vaccination center on March 2 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela/Getty Images
Ten states have now reached the Biden administration’s goal to vaccinate at least 70% of adults against Covid-19 by July 4 with at least one dose, according to data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pennsylvania is the latest state to reach this benchmark, joining Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Biden demands to know Covid-19 origins within 90 days Biden s order signals an escalation in mounting controversy over how the virus first emerged - through animal contact or through release from a research laboratory in China. US President Joe Biden. Picture: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident
Agencies should “redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
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