President Biden's Global Covid Vaccine Push Falters, Echoing Domestic Struggle

President Joe Biden’s effort to vaccinate the world against Covid-19 is falling short, echoing the faltering campaign to inoculate Americans and raising the risk that more dangerous variants of the virus will yet emerge. Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged in a virtual meeting with other countries on Monday that the globe is not on pace to meet a goal of vaccinating 70% of the entire human population by later this year, a target set in 2021 both by Biden and the World Health Organization. Low-income countries -- particularly in Africa, where the omicron variant was first detected -- remain overwhelmingly unvaccinated.