
'I need you': Biden asks Americans to do their part to help country emerge from Covid crisis
CNN
President Joe Biden offered Americans the tantalizing hope of a return to an all but forgotten pre-pandemic normalcy within months Thursday, promising all American adults could get the vaccine by May and setting a goal of family and friend gatherings by July 4.
President Joe Biden on Thursday offered Americans the tantalizing hope of a return to an all but forgotten pre-pandemic normalcy within months, escalating the "war footing" on which he has placed the nation to beat the virus that has caused the worst domestic crisis in generations. In his first prime-time address, Biden shouldered the theatricality, responsibility and pastoral nature of the presidency as never before, laying down a personal challenge to every citizen of a deeply polarized and grieving nation to buckle down to fight the virus and get vaccinated as soon as it is their turn.
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