Coronavirus will have killed half a million people in the US by the end of next month, Joe Biden predicted on Thursday as he warned that his administration would not be able to dramatically speed up the pace of vaccinations.
The president, who ran for election on a pledge to overhaul the US response to the pandemic, told reporters “the death toll will probably top 500,000 next month, the cases will continue to mount”.
“We didn’t get into this mess overnight. It’s going to take months for us to turn things around,” Mr Biden added during a briefing at the White House on his first full day as president.
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