Biden Directs States to Make All Adults Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine by May 1

It's the president's first primetime address to the nation

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks on the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 11, 2021. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that he will direct states to make all adult Americans eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1.

The administration will make sure that every adult can get the vaccine by increasing the number of vaccination sites by May 1, Biden announced in his first primetime address to the nation marking one year since the COVID-19 pandemic was announced by the WHO.