Joe Biden To Norah O’Donnell: It Will Be “Very Difficult” To Reach Herd Immunity Before The Summer

deadline.com:

CBS News aired another excerpt of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with Joe Biden as part of the Super Bowl pre-game, and the president was asked whether he could go to vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer and tell them, “We need more production.”“Yes.

I think, because we’ve already done it,” Biden said. “But the idea that this can be done and we can get to herd immunity much before the end of next– this summer, is– is very difficult.”O’Donnell had noted that at the current rate of the vaccine rollout, the U.S.

would not reach 75% herd immunity for another year.Biden said that when he came into office, a disappointment was that “the circumstance relating to how the administration was handling COVID was even more dire than we thought.”“The