{"id":9397,"date":"2021-05-05T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2021-05-05T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:39:45","slug":"biden-aims-for-70-percent-of-us-adults-having-one-vaccine-shot-by-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=9397","title":{"rendered":"Biden aims for 70 percent of US adults having one vaccine shot by July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, May 5 &#8212; US\u00a0President Joe Biden on Tuesday set a goal of getting 70 percent of the US adults population to receive at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by July 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden, who made battling the pandemic his main focus when he took office on Jan 20, said in a speech at the White House that he also wants to have 160 million US\u00a0adults fully vaccinated by the Independence Day, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-13.37.29.png\" alt=\"adults\" class=\"wp-image-9398\" width=\"506\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-13.37.29.png 590w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-13.37.29-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-13.37.29-160x100.png 160w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-13.37.29-350x218.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that as\u00a0of Monday, more than 145.3 million Americans aged 18 and older, or 56.3 percent of the total adult population, had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the US\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 104.7 million Americans aged 18 and older, or 40.6 percent of the total adult population, had been fully vaccinated, showed CDC data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is estimated that between 70 percent to 85 percent of the US&nbsp;population needs to be immune to COVID-19 in order to reach herd immunity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 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