'I did three funerals in three weeks': Some dying of COVID-19 while waiting turn for vaccine By Jay Reeves President Biden remarks on 100M shots administered ahead of schedule President Joe Biden gave his remarks on the 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots administered ahead of schedule, but stressed we still have a long way to go. After months of hoping to receive a COVID-19 immunization and then weeks of fighting the illness after one never came, Air Force veteran Diane Drewes was down to her last few breaths at a hospice center in Ohio when the phone rang. It was a health care worker, calling to schedule her first appointment for a coronavirus shot.