President Biden said he hopes to accept the NFL’s offer to use its 32 stadiums as mass vaccination sites during an interview that aired on Sunday.
The president told Norah O’Donnell of CBS in the interview that aired at the party before the Super Bowl that he received a call from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, in which the commissioner offered the league’s 32 stadiums as potential vaccination sites.
When asked if Biden’s administration will accept Goodell in the offer, Biden replied, “Sure, let’s go,” before adding, “let me put it this way, I will tell my team that they are available and I believe” I will use it them. “
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Biden’s public schedule for Monday indicates that he and Vice President Harris will virtually visit the vaccination site at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, which normally hosts the Arizona Cardinals.
Six other stadiums belonging to the Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots are also already being used as vaccination sites, ESPN reported..
During his interview with CBS, the president said when he took office last month “one of the disappointments” was “the circumstances related to how the government was dealing with COVID were even more terrible than we thought”.
“That’s why we increase it everywhere we can,” he said.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved two COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, allowing more than 31.5 million to receive one or more doses of the vaccine and more than 9.1 million to receive two doses, according to data from the Control Center and Disease Prevention.
Parts of the interview aired before the start of the Super Bowl, in which the Kansas City Chiefs faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.