The Biden administration plans to buy 100 million more doses each of Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in order to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of summer. ‘The biggest problem, I hope you’re all asking me by the end of summer is that you have too much vaccine leftover,’ Biden said at the White House Tuesday afternoon. Biden delivered the update Tuesday on the heels of Vice President Kamala Harris getting her second shot of the Moderna vaccine at the Bethesda, Maryland headquarters of the National Institutes of Health. Biden said at his appearance that the vaccine program ‘is in worse shape than we anticipated or expected.’ Going forward, Biden said the administration will increase the supply of vaccines to states, tribes and territories from 8.6 million doses to a minimum of 10 million doses. ‘Starting next week, that’s an increase of 1.4 million doses per week,’ Biden said. ‘And so this is going to allow millions of more Americans to get vaccinated sooner than previously anticipated,’ he added. He also promised the state and local leaders ‘will now always have a reliable three-week forecast of the supply they’re going to get.’ ‘Until now, we’ve had to guess how much vaccine to expect for the next week and that’s what the governors had to do: “how much am I getting next week?” This is unacceptable,’ Biden said. By knowing these figures, Biden explain, governors, mayors and local leaders can carry out their plans to vaccinate the largest number of people possible. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are two-shot doses. Biden said by increasing the supply and being transparent about the supply, the U.S. should ‘God willing’ be able to get to his goal of 100 million shots in the first 100 days of the administration. ‘But I also want to be clear, 100 million shots in 100 days is not the end point, it’s just the start,’ the president said. ‘We’re not stopping there. The end goal is to beat COVID-19. And the way we do that is to get more people vaccinated, which means we have to be ready after we hit the goal of 100 million shots in 100 days.’ Biden then relayed the administration’s plan to buy 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 100 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, which would be enough to vaccine 100 million more Americans. Biden continued to call fighting the coronavirus a ‘wartime effort,’ noting that the 400,000-plus death toll topped all the World War II American dead.’And we’re using the Defense Production Act to launch a full-scale wartime effort to address the supply shortages we inherited from the previous administration,’ Biden explained. The president said the administration was continuing to work to get the vaccines into local pharmacies around the country. ‘But the brutal truth is, it’s going to take months before we get the majority of American vaccinated. In the next few months, masks, not vaccines are the best defense against COVID-19,’ the president also said. ‘Experts say that wearing masks from now on, just until April would save 50,000 who otherwise will pass away if we don’t wear these masks.’