NEW: President Biden announces early achievement of 200 million shots. We were on pace not to reach this until September when we got here.

Tens of thousands of lives saved so far.

Now we must reach everyone 16 and over.

More than 50% of Americans and 80% of seniors have received their first shots.

This was 5% and 8% when Biden and Harris arrived.

And 80% of educators and school staff are vaccinated.

We have seen an 80% reduction in deaths of those 65 and older.

Time for this benefit to spread to everyone.

Now the eligibility rules are gone, 90% live within 5 miles of a vaccination site.

Hundreds of Americans are still dying each day and more and more young people are being hospitalized without vaccination.

It is time for working age adults to get vaccinated & do do it without losing pay.

President Biden calls on every employer to give time off with pay and there is a new tax credit for all employers <500 to give people time off. So it will not cost employers to give ppl time off.