And folks, that's how we beat COVID-19 by working together.

We have an expression in that little town of Clamont Armstrong.

You all brought me to the dance labor.

You're the reason I'm standing here. Not a joke.

Not a joke. I can look and I was 29 years old through the United States Senate.

17 days before I was eligible to be sworn in.

I had to wait around to be sworn in, not a joke as well.

And I won by 30, 300 votes and labor.

Labor, including the police unions as well as the firefighters, stood up and endorsed me.

And because I kid with the governor, I said I grew up in a town called Clamont Delaware from third grade on.

I went to a little Catholic school called Holy Rosy, and across the street from Holy Rosy was the fire station.

And the guys that grew up with me became either a firefighter, a cop, or a priest.

I wasn't qualified for an M, so I had to be president.

But look, it's been a month since I laid out a six-part plan to accelerate the path out of this pandemic.

One, vaccinate the unvaccinated. Two, continue to keep the vaccinated protected.

Keep children safe in school's open, as the governor's doing.

To increase testing and masking, protect the economic recovery and improve the care of the people with COVID-19.

We made real progress across the board. More than 185 million Americans are now fully vaccinated.

More than 75% of eligible Americans have got at least one shot.

We made great progress on equity as well.

Closing the gaps in race as well as ethnic vaccination rates.

Recent data shows Latino Americans, Black Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans have now gotten vaccinated about the comparable rate as white Americans.

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