It's Wednesday, May 5th. I'm Ekela Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what today we're reordering from our favorite local Mexican place for Cinco de Mayo.

Yeah, to be clear, this is different from how we've also been ordering from the same place to out of every five nights during a pandemic.

Yes, those meals were not celebratory.

Yeah, they were literally in defeat.

Yeah.

On today's show, we break down the state by state campaign by conservatives to outlaw the teaching of systemic racism,

plus we'll have headlines, but first the latest.

Two months of today, families across the country are going to celebrate the 4th of July.

Our goal by July 4th is to have 70% of adult Americans at least one shot and 160 million Americans fully vaccinated.

Wow, that is a lovely thing to do for Malia Obama's birthday.

So that was person invited yesterday, setting another goal post in the US vaccination campaign.

Gidee, how should we read into this latest announcement?

Well, overall, I think it reflects the major challenges administration is facing right now.

How do you properly convey that more normality awaits when you get vaccinated,

but at the same time, not everyone let their guard down?

That is a very difficult question to answer.

Then there's also been this recent slowdown in the number of Americans that are actually getting their vaccines each day.

It's about half as much lately compared to the peak of around mid-April.

There's a good near-time graphic we can link to that kind of shows that drop off, but it looks pretty steep.

A Biden was able to deliver on his promise of 200 million shots in his first 100 days.

So this is a new and separate target that he said.

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