What a year. What a year, my brother. So nothing is the same. And nothing will be the same.

And we still don't know where we're going to wind up. But the president, we're certainly pointing us in the right direction.

Tonight, great coverage. Everybody, I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. Excuse my voice. It's allergies and emotion.

Tonight marks one year since the start of the pandemic. This has been the deadliest year in a century.

Literally, the road started one year ago with a presidential address on our watch.

And now a year later, literally to the hour, a very different president with a very different message.

The biggest anti-poverty measure in a generation. The law aims to lift 11 million Americans out of poverty and cut child poverty in half.

President Biden spent most of his first address to the nation, not taking a victory lap, but rallying us for the rest of the race to come.

A year ago, we're hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked the niles for days, weeks, then months.

We've had to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness.

We know what we need to do to beat this virus. Tell the truth. Follow the scientists, the science, work together.

My fervent prayer for our country. Is it after all we've been through will come together as one people, one nation, one America.

I believe we can and we will.

Biden also made a big announcement. He's going to tell all the states to open up vaccine appointments for all adults by May 1.

And here's the incentive for all of us.

If we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together by July the 4th, there's a good chance you, your families and friends, will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cook out or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day.

That doesn't mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together.

After this long hard year, that will make this Independence Day something truly special.

Celebrating Independence Day as a function of our co-dependence, of our interdependence, we have to rely on each other to get to that better place.

The president said he has put government to work to ensure that on May 1, there will be enough vaccine for every adult in the country.

We have a team member from his COVID effort who's going to tell us how that will happen and how big a challenge it is exactly.

But the president also took on something just as dangerous as the pandemic and his address.

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