US President-elect Joe Biden predicted the timing of the improvement in the situation with coronavirus in the country … He stated this during a speech in Delaware, broadcast by the C-SPAN TV channel.
He predicted that “things will get worse before they get better.” According to the Democrat, citizens may not see positive trends with the pandemic until March. “Critics said that I was alarmist, but I always promised to tell you how things really are,” the politician explained.
Biden stressed that the actions of the administration of the current head of state Donald Trump “are far lagged behind “necessary. In addition, at the current rate of vaccination, it will take “years, not months” to build up herd immunity against COVID-19. Even if production of the drug is accelerated, the majority of the US population will be able to vaccinate in a few months, he concluded.
Earlier, Biden predicted a difficult period in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the US. According to him, despite the vaccination of the population that has begun in the country, “people will continue to become infected and die” from the consequences of the disease caused by the virus. “The simple truth is that the toughest days in our fight against COVID-19 are yet to come,” he said. The politician assured that his administration will start fulfilling its tasks on the very first day after the inauguration, which will take place on January 20.