00:00And we need more people to get vaccinated to beat this pandemic.
00:04That's why, in the first three weeks that I've been in office,
00:08we've increased the supply of weekly vaccine shipments to the states by almost 30%.
00:15That means millions more Americans will get vaccinated in February
00:19than the previous administration was on track to do.
00:23But that's just the start.
00:25We bought more vaccines.
00:26When I took office just three weeks ago, this country did not have a plan
00:31or enough vaccines or people to vaccinate Americans.
00:37Any, all Americans, anytime, at any point in 2021.
00:42We've now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans.
00:46And now we're working to get those vaccines into the arms of millions of people.
00:51While scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time,
00:55my predecessor, to be very blunt about it, did not do his job
00:59in getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans.
01:05He didn't order enough vaccines.
01:07He didn't mobilize enough people to administer the shots.
01:11Mask up, America.
01:12Mask up.
01:14And to really get ahead of this pandemic instead of chasing it,
01:18we need Congress to pass my American Rescue Plan.
01:22I'm grateful that the Senate and the House are moving quickly.
01:26And my hope is that we'll get Republicans as well as Democrats to support us.
01:31But we can't wait.
01:33People are dying every minute from this pandemic.
01:36We can't wait.
01:37We'll be right back.
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