Death Toll Reaches 527,726, Joe Biden Wants All US Adults To Get The COVID-19 Vaccine As Of May 1

President of the United States Joe Biden. (Raga Granada / VOI))

JAKARTA - United States President Joe Biden wants all adults over 18 to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1 at the latest.

This was said when he gave a national speech on Thursday, March 11 evening local time, or to coincide with a year COVID-19 hit the United States.

"All states must provide the COVID-19 vaccine to all eligible adults, by May 1", said Joe Biden in his speech from the East Room of the White House, Washington DC, United States.

To achieve the COVID-19 vaccination target, in addition to maximizing the use of the COVID-19 vaccine alerted by Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, President Joe Biden also mentioned the matter of adding 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Also, President Joe Biden wants all citizens of the United States to unite to fight COVID-19, just like the joint efforts made in the face of World War II.

"To make this happen, all will be deployed, active military, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), retired doctors and nurses, dentists, ophthalmologists, paramedics, veterinarians, and medical students, to support the injection", said Biden.

On this occasion, President Joe Biden said that the number of victims who died from COVID-19 had reached 527,726. This figure was said to be greater than the victims of World War I, World War II, to the combination of the Vietnam War and the 9/11 Incident.

He said that Americans miss many things, from birthdays, graduations, to family gatherings on Saturday nights. He said that COVID-19 prevented grandparents from seeing their grandchildren. The children cannot meet their friends.

"A year ago we were exposed to a virus that met with silence and spread uncontrollably. Rejection for days, weeks, then months, which led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness", he snapped.

By increasing vaccine capacity to millions of injection doses per month and the support of all Americans, President Biden believes this pandemic can be resolved and passed well.

"Finding light in the dark is a very possible thing to do. Us, the United States can do", he said.