The Government’s objectives versus reality: how it has to increase the rate of vaccination to reach 70% of vaccinated in August

We have a calendar. After months of estimates, relatively generic goals, and logistical problems, Pedro Sánchez has just set a clear calendar on the near future of the Spanish vaccination campaign. According to the President of the Government, in the “prudent and more conservative” scenario 33 million Spaniards, 70% of the adult population will be vaccinated with a full schedule at the end of August.

Sánchez has recognized this vaccination objective is part of a “tremendously complex” process and is a key piece in the executive’s response to the end of the State of Alarm, on May 9. That is to say, at the end of many of the restrictions that still operate today in the national territory. For this reason, we are not facing “one more objective”: we are facing the fundamental objective to rebuild the normality of the country for the end of the year.

So the question is, Is it a realistic goal? Can we get it? How do you have to increase the rate of vaccination to do so?

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