President Biden said on Tuesday that Uber and Lyft, two of the country’s largest ride-sharing services, would provide free rides to vaccination sites beginning May 24, an agreement intended to help stem the declining pace of immunizations and reach his goal of at least partly inoculating 70 percent of American adults by July 4. Mr. Biden said that the ride-sharing initiative would last until then. The announcement marked an aggressive new phase of the administration’s efforts to combat vaccine hesitancy and expand access. “We’re going to be able to take a serious step toward return to normalcy by Independence Day,” Mr. Biden said, referring to a benchmark he set in March. “And there’s a lot of work to do though to get there.

Source: New York Times May 11, 2021 19:29 UTC