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Joe Biden: When I took office in January, we were losing literally tens of thousands of our seniors each week. Grandparents who…

On the recordApril 27, 2021
When I took office in January, we were losing literally tens of thousands of our seniors each week. Grandparents who were loved so dearly, moms and dads, people in every community, gone by the thousands every day. At that time, less than 1 percent of seniors were fully vaccinated when I took office. Today, in less than 100 days, more than 67 percent, two thirds of our seniors are now fully vaccinated. That effort resulted in a drop of 80 percent in deaths among American seniors.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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Biden discusses the progress made in vaccinating seniors and the resulting decrease in deaths.

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