Campaign in ‘new phase’
Confronting concerns that too many Americans aren’t getting vaccinated, President Joe Biden said yesterday that his administration was beginning a ‘‘new phase’’ of its Covid-19 inoculation campaign to convince more people to get a shot, and to make it easier for them to do so. At stake is his promise to curb a contagion that has taken nearly 600,000 lives and cost millions of jobs in the US – and make it safer for people to gather for Fourth of July barbecues, a symbolic goal Biden set a little more than a month after taking office. ‘‘We need you. We need you to bring it home,’’ Biden urged Americans from the White House. ‘‘Get vaccinated. In two