Officials from more than 40 states have said they are scheduled to meet or beat each other President Biden
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As vaccination efforts continue across the country, at least 30 states are expecting vaccinations for all adults in March or April, ahead of the president’s target date, the Times reported.
Several states announced expansions this week their eligibility requirements, including West Virginia, Arizona, and Utah, which were open to all adults. Those three states joined Alaska and Mississippi, which had already approved vaccinations for people 16 and older.
Other states such as Georgia and Texas said 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 to be eligible to reach all adults on March 31 and April 5, respectively.
Louisiana and Idaho officials set their expected full dates for participation to be Monday and April 5 on Wednesday, respectively.
Officials in several states, such as New Jersey, Alabama and Minnesota, have said their states will meet Biden’s deadline without specifying a specific date.
South Carolina is one of the states that is expected to miss the deadline by two days, as the Palmetto State expects all residents 16 and older are eligible on “approximately May 3rd”.
According to a list from the Kaiser Family Foundation, no other states have an expected post-Biden deadline date when vaccines should be available to all adults.
The optimistic expectations for most states come now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported that more than a quarter of the U.S. population, which equates to more than 85 million people, has received at least one dose of the vaccine. Fourteen percent of the US population, more than 46 million people, is fully vaccinated.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the only one authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to go to those 16 and older, while the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are approved for those who are at least 18 years old.