U.S. won't hit Biden's 70% COVID vaccination goal by July 4, White House official admits
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Washington — Jeff Zients, White House's coronavirus response coordinator, will acknowledge Tuesday that the U.S. will fall short of President Biden's goal of having 70% of American adults receive at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by July 4, according to a White House official.
But, during Tuesday's White House COVID-19 response team briefing, Zients will emphasize that at least 70% of U.S. adults 30 and older have received at least one shot, and the U.S. is on track for 70% of adults 27 and older to have received at least one shot by July 4. So far, 65.4% of U.S. adults have had at least one shot, according to data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, and more than 150 million Americans are fully vaccinated. Zients is expected to acknowledge in Tuesday's COVID-19 response team briefing that the U.S. has more work to do to encourage 18- to 26-year-olds to get vaccinated.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.