"Please take the vaccine" says President Joe Biden to all

President Joe Biden toured a modern coronavirus vaccination facility on Friday, while extreme winter weather across the broad parts of the U.S. gave his vaccination campaign its first major setback, delaying the shipment of about six million doses. The disruptions caused by icy temperatures, snow and ice left the White House and the fields scrambled to make up for lost land as the vaccination was temporarily delayed by three days. The president's trip to see Pfizer's largest plant was pushed back one day due to a storm that hit the country's capital. At the Michigan plant, Biden walked through an area called the "freezer farm," which houses about 350 ultra-cold freezers, each capable of storing 360,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine. The president stopped double-masked to talk to some of the workers.

After the tour, Biden took the time to urge Americans to get the vaccine, especially Black Americans who still express skepticism about the safety of the vaccine.

"We all know the history in the country that in the past we have subjected certain communities to terrible medical abuse," Biden said. He probably refers to the infamous secret US government 'Tuskegee experiment' in the 1930s over 600 black men who left them untreated with syphilis for decades.

'But if there is one message to everyone in this country, it is this: The vaccines are safe. Take yourself, your family, your community, this country, the vaccination if it is your turn and available. That's how to overcome this pandemic, 'Biden said.

Biden set a goal to deliver 100 million shots in the first 100 days of his administration, and it seemed like it could be easily achieved before the storms.

The United States administered an average of 1.7 million doses per day in the week ending Tuesday, but bad weather forced many injection sites to close temporarily, from Texas to New England, and sent the necessary doses. It remains unclear how long it will take to recover from the effects of the weather-related delays.