It’s in the nature of presidential candidates and new presidents to promise big things. Just months after his 1961 inauguration, President John F. Kennedy vowed to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade. That pledge was kept, but many others haven’t been, such as candidate Bill Clinton’s promise to provide universal health care and presidential hopeful George H.W. Bush’s guarantee of no new taxes.
With president Joe Biden now in the White House his bold pledge to vaccinate 100 million people in 100 days is to be tested. If fulfilled effectively, Biden’s promise would strike a significant blow against the coronavirus and give a country battered by the pandemic a major boost after a year of mismanaged response that has seen more than 400,000 people die and more than 24 million infected. But carrying out Biden’s promise will be a challenging.
Tipsters, tech-savvy kids, pharmacy hopping: How Americans are landing vaccines
The expanded availability of the two authorized coronavirus shots unleashes a free-for-all.
By Fenit Nirappil, Karin Brulliard and Sarah FowlerThe Washington Post
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Ramona Cohen, 75, waits in line at a Giant grocery store in Washington, D.C. in the hope of getting a leftover dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Friday. The Washington Post by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
Four days into her coronavirus vaccine hunt, Ramona Cohen struck out again.
The Safeway in her Washington, D.C., neighborhood had no doses left after its last Thursday appointment. She still had four pharmacies left to try thanks to a tip from her mail carrier that a grocery store a few miles away was giving away leftover vaccine.