'Months' before everyone can be vaccinated -WH official

"We were facing two constraining factors. The first is getting enough supply quickly enough, and the second is the ability to administer the vaccines quickly once they're produced and sent out to the sites," Slavitt said.

The U.S. aims to acquire an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday (January 26), enough to inoculate most Americans by summertime, as he races to curb a pandemic he warned could still get worse.