“Thanks to our heroic vaccine effort, we’ve gained the upper hand against this virus,” Biden said. “We can live our lives, our kids can go back to school, our economy is roaring back.” Surely there was reason to celebrate. When he’d taken office six months earlier, more than 3,000 people were dying from COVID-19 each day; the death toll was now down to about 200 a day. When Donald Trump left Washington, D.C., on the morning of Biden’s inauguration, new cases were averaging 195,000 a day; by July 4, that figure had plunged to about 12,000. Biden’s tone was triumphant. The disease hadn’t “been vanquished,” he said, but the bands and the red-white-and-blue lanterns served as a festive promise that the isolation and fear wrought by the pandemic would soon subside. He mingled with the crowd, unmasked, shaking hands and signing autographs. “Biden Declares Success in Beating Pandemic in July 4 Speech” read a Bloomberg headline.
Didn't he say he would turn things around during the first 100 days?
Still no. He promised lots of injections in the first 100 days of his mandate, and he actually delivered more than double what he promised by April 15 2021, when the 100 days were up..
The article you're quoting is from Sept 8 2021, much later. It points out the speech was made on July 4th, long after the first 100 days were over, and when daily new cases had dropped 94% since he took office. Things looked pretty rosy, but Delta was just around the corner.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/how-delta-beat-biden-covid-pandemic/620003/
Still no. He promised lots of injections in the first 100 days of his mandate, and he actually delivered more than double what he promised by April 15 2021, when the 100 days were up..
The article you're quoting is from Sept 8 2021, much later. It points out the speech was made on July 4th, long after the first 100 days were over, and when daily new cases had dropped 94% since he took office. Things looked pretty rosy, but Delta was just around the corner.
2021