Officials from more than 40 states have said they plan to meet or win President Biden
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With the nationwide advancing vaccination effort, at least 30 states expect to open vaccines to all adults in March or April, before the president’s target date, the Times reported.
This week several states announced expansions to their eligibility requirements, included West Virginia, Arizona and Utah, which were open to all adults. These three states joined Alaska and Mississippi, which had already authorized vaccination for those over 16 years of age.
Other states such as Georgia and Texas stated that the vaccine will be available to all adults in the coming days, Georgia on Thursday and Texas on Monday. Indiana and Tennessee also said they expected eligibility to reach all adults on March 31 and April 5, respectively.
Louisiana i Idaho officials set their full eligibility dates scheduled for Monday and April 5, respectively, on Wednesday.
Officials from several states, including New Jersey, Alabama and Minnesota, have said their states will meet the Biden deadline without specifying a specific date.
South Carolina is one of the states expected to lose the deadline in two days, as Palmetto State expects all residents 16 years of age or older will be eligible on “approximately May 3”.
According to a list by the Kaiser Family Foundation, no other state has scheduled a date later than the Biden deadline for vaccines to be available to all adults.
Optimistic expectations for most states are given as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that more than a quarter of the U.S. population, which exceeds 85 million people, has received at least one dose of the vaccine. Fourteen percent of the U.S. population, more than 46 million people, is completely vaccinated.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the only one authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to go to those over the age of 16, while the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are approved for those under the age of 18 at least.