Building on his pledge to speed up the fight against Cove in 19, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the U.

S has secured 200 million more vaccine doses.

Just this afternoon, we signed the final contracts for 100 million MAWR Madonna and 100 million more Pfizer vaccines are also able to move up.

The delivery dates with an additional 200 million vaccines to the end of July, faster than we expected and then further good news, both companies agreed.

We're now contractually obligated Thio to expedite delivery of 100 million doses that were promised by the end of June to deliver them by the end of May.

That's a month faster.

That means lives will be saved.

Inoculations couldn't be more urgent, Biden said.

As the U.

S.

Is closing in on a death toll of half a million people.

You've heard a lot about these variants.

Speaking with his mask on after touring the National Institutes of Health, Biden blasted former President Donald Trump for handing his administration a flimsy vaccine distribution plan, while scientists did their job in discovering vaccines in record time.

My predecessor, be very blunt about it, did not do his job getting ready for the massive challenge of vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans.

He didn't order enough vaccines.

He didn't mobilize enough people who administer the shots.

With demand for the vaccine far outstripping supply, Americans are struggling to get appointments.

Biden on Thursday urged Americans to have patients.

When I became president three weeks ago, America had no plan to vaccinate most of the country.

It was a big mess.

That's gonna take time to fix, to be blunt with you.