President Joe Biden expressed optimism Tuesday that the U.S. vaccine rollout will surpass forecasts, although a massive winter storm was stalling efforts to deliver shots this week.
“Before I took office, I set a big goal of administering 100 million shots in the first 100 days,” Biden tweeted Tuesday. “With the progress we’re making I believe we’ll not only reach that, we’ll break it.”
Biden’s goal had been considered conservative by experts who argued that vaccines must be manufactured, shipped and jabbed much more quickly for vaccines to become readily available by spring. Dr. Anthony Fauci has predicted that any American who wants the vaccine will have access by then.
On Tuesday, the winter storm driving icy roads, power outages and dangerously low temperatures across much of the nation was snarling traffic from coast to coast and delaying vaccine shipments to Florida and…
