Biden calls for faster vaccination of teachers as he admits no timeline for school reopening

President Biden got a hearty round of applause during a socially distant CNN town hall event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night when he said America needs to be vaccinating its teachers a lot sooner.

“There’s a lot of things we can do,” Mr Biden said in a response to a question from a father of four in the audience about when schools would re-open. “I think that we should be vaccinating teachers. We should move them up in the hierarchy as well,” he added, to the approval of the audience.

The federal government makes recommendations on whom should be vaccinated when, and many places choose to follow them, but the decision of how to order the vaccine rollout ultimately rests with individual states.

During the event, Mr Biden said at current rates there would be more than 600 million doses of the vaccine out in the country, enough to vaccinate every American.