Biden 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in first 100 days in office.

US President Joe Biden on has promised 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in his first 100 days in office.

Biden disclosed this on Thursday March 25, 2021, at his first news conference.

He also said the United States would likely miss a May 1 deadline set by former president Donald Trump to pull all troops from Afghanistan.

The president, however, said he would end America’s longest war within the year.

Delving into details and offering low-key answers, Biden cast a dramatically different character than his bombastic predecessor in his first formal encounter with reporters in the White House’s imposing East Room since he entered office on January 20.

Biden waited longer than any modern president to hold a news conference with his aides apparently worried that the free-wheeling 78-year-old politician — who joked that he entered the Senate “120 years ago” — would veer off a carefully crafted message.

But he appeared at ease and in command as he cast himself as a seasoned Washington operator who would tackle pressing problems starting with Covid-19, which has killed nearly 550,000 people in the United States.

“I’ve been hired to solve problems, not create division,” Biden said, pointing to passage of a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that sends money to most Americans.

“I’m a fairly practical guy. I want to get things done.”

Biden began his news conference by announcing that he planned to administer 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in his first 100 days — the end of April.

“I know it’s ambitious, twice our original goal,” Biden said. “But no other country in the world has even come close — not even close — to what we are doing, and I believe we can do it.”

The United States under Biden has dramatically scaled up the distribution of vaccines — developed during Trump’s presidency — as well as economic support, bringing dividends as hospitalizations dip and new unemployment claims fall to their lowest level since the start of the pandemic.