WASHINGTON — For much of the spring, President Biden touted his goal of vaccinating 70 percent of eligible adults by July 4. The United States missed that mark by about a month. Since then, he and his top aides have studiously declined to say what share of the American population they’d ultimately like to see vaccinated, even as they intensify pressure on the unvaccinated to get their shots.
“We’re going to try to get as many people in the country vaccinated as humanly possible,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last Friday, declining to delve into specifics. “We’re not going to put an end limit on that.”
At the present,