On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused President Biden of “moving the goalposts” after the president told reporters that up to 98 percent of Americans may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before things can return to normal.
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When asked by a reporter how many Americans will need to be vaccinated before the country returns to normal, Biden received his booster shot at the White House on Monday.
Biden told the reporter that he is no scientist, but he believes we will need to “get the vast majority,” similar to what is happening in some industries and schools, where compliance rates are as high as 96, 97, and 98 percent.
President Biden said, “I think we’re getting awful close,” while adding that he knows that a quarter of the country cannot go unvaccinated “and us not continue to have a problem.”
Joe Biden is moving the goalposts. https://t.co/f9w712esuF pic.twitter.com/5YkUHJfo7L
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 27, 2021
Of course, there is no simple solution to the problem. With variants and vaccines losing effectiveness over time, the question appears to be nearly impossible to answer.
However, we can say there also seem to be variations on what normal means to different people these days. Meanwhile, the White House has not returned SurgeZirc US request for comment.
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Ted Cruz, for his part, tweeted an Axios article from December 2020 that quoted Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top disease expert, who put the figure between 75 and 80 percent.
Ted tweeted, “Joe Biden is moving the goalposts.”
According to the New York Times, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday that approximately 213.7 million people have received at least one vaccination. Approximately 55% of Americans have received both vaccines.
