Biden expected to announce all adult Americans will be eligible for vaccine by May 1

• All adults in the US will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1, Biden will announce Thursday.
• Biden is expected to direct states to make all adults in the US eligible for the vaccine “no later than May 1,” according to a senior administration official.
• “The fight is far from over,” Biden will say during a Thursday night address. “We still have a lot of work to do.”
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All adult Americans will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce during his prime-time address Thursday night that he will direct states, tribes, and territories to make all adults in the US eligible for the vaccine “no later than May 1,” according to a senior administration official.

“The fight is far from over. We still have a lot of work to do,” the president is set to say in his speech Thursday. “But together, unified, we can defeat this pandemic and we can all celebrate a more normal Fourth of July with families and friends.”

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