PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Details have finally been released on President Joe Biden’s visit to Michigan today to tour Pfizer’s plant in Portage.
The president will meet with workers making Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Biden is scheduled to arrive at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport around 1:45 p.m., tour the plant and meet with workers around 2:30 p.m., deliver some brief remarks shortly after 3:00 p.m., and then fly out by 4:00 p.m.
It’s not yet clear whether Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who visited the plant a few weeks ago, will join Biden on his tour.
The president was originally scheduled to visit Thursday, but the trip was postponed until Friday due to poor weather in Washington D.C. His visit comes as state and local governments across the country clamor for more vaccines. Less than 15% of the U.S. population is vaccinated.
The United States has rolled out ambitious vaccination programs in recent weeks that include large sites capable of putting shots into thousands of arms daily, as well as hospitals and pharmacies. But officials are begging for more doses.
The Biden administration has been working to increase the number of doses it sends out to states, cities and pharmacies every week, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s top medical adviser, said on Tuesday that demand far outpaced supply at the moment.
The White House said earlier this month it was using the Defense Production Act to help Pfizer get additional equipment fast so that it could keep ramping up production. Biden is expected to discuss that initiative, which officials say is starting to pay dividends, with Pfizer executives during his tour.
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