Biden's 100-Day Vaccine Goal Was Nearly Met Before He Arrived

With 983,000 shots administered daily, the president’s plan to reach a million underwhelms

People wait in line at a Covid-19 vaccination site in Anaheim, California, on Jan. 13. 

Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg
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The U.S. is close to administering Covid-19 vaccinations at a pace of a million doses a day, suggesting that the Biden administration’s 100-million-doses-in-100-days goal may be a modest aspiration.

In the week Biden was sworn in as president, nearly 983,000 shots a day were administered on average over the seven days ending Friday, according to data from Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker. The most recent three days topped a million doses.