- And CBN News medicalreporter Lorie Johnson

joins us now with more.

So, Lorie, PresidentBiden announced yesterday

there will be enoughvaccines for all adults

by Memorial Day.

Many begging the question then

is this the beginning ofthe end of the pandemic?

- Well, a lot of people aresaying that it looks that way.

Things are just, every timewe look at the statistics

and the information,things are looking better.

The deaths are down.The case rates are down.

They're still too high though.

We're still talking about57,000 new cases yesterday,

still 1,300 new deaths yesterday, Efrem.

But yes, the information is great.

There will be enough vaccine for half

of the adult populationin the United States

to get their vaccine bythe end of this month.

So things are looking up.

There are those variants out there.

The CDC director hasissued caution about these,

particularly the South African variant,

because it has been shownto evade the vaccine

and some treatments.

And so caution does needto be issued regarding,

you know, just letting everything go

and not taking any precautionsat all at this point.

- Lorie, some pro-lifeadvocates do not like

the Johnson and Johnson vaccine,

because it was madeusing fetal cell lines.

Explain what that means.

- So fetal cell linesare not fetal tissue,

and there has been,especially on social media,

some misinformation about that.

So this is, we'retalking about an abortion

that occurred in 1970,1970, so many decades ago.

And the cells from that aborted child

have continually replicated in labs,

many different labs,for all these decades.

So we're talking about cells

that are thousands of generations removed

from that initial abortion.

And they're used in vaccines

and lots of otherdifferent medical products.

So that's what a cell line is.

And these cell lines wereused to grow the vaccine.

So this is objectionable to some people.

Others say, for example the Vaticans say,

it's okay to take this vaccine,

because again, remember, vaccinesare also an issue of life,

just like abortion is.

And the Vatican is saying that, you know,

vaccines do save lives.

And so it's okay to take a vaccine

that was manufactured this way.

Some people can't get past it though.

- Can people choosewhich vaccine they take?

- At this point, the answer is no.

And so when you are offereda vaccine, health experts say

go ahead and take whicheverone is offered to you

because time is of the essence.

Because, as we talked about before,

we want to see as manypeople get vaccinated

before these variants havea chance to take hold.

And so when you are offered a vaccine,

they won't give you the choice

of whether it's Pfizer,Moderna, or Johnson and Johnson.

You just pretty much have to take

the one that's offered to you.

If you don't take it, whoknows when you're going

to be able to get thevaccine that you want.

And in the meantime, you couldget sick with coronavirus.

- So when do you think we'llbe getting back to life as,

I guess, new normal, if you will?

- That's the goal. That's whatwe're all looking towards.

So the health experts say

we have to reach this herd immunity.

We've been talking aboutherd immunity for so long.

That means that so manypeople have been protected

against the coronavirus.

So many people areimmune to the coronavirus

from one of two ways, whetheryou've been vaccinated

or you have natural immunity

because you've gotten sick from it

and now your body has the antibodies.

And they're saying atleast 70% of the population

needs to be immune to the coronavirus.

When will that be?

We know that it could happenas soon as this summer,

because the supply ofvaccines will be there.

The question, Efrem, of course,

is even though the supply is there,

will people get the vaccine?

We see this with the flu every year.

We have plenty of flu vaccine,but not that many people,

only about half of the American public,

gets their flu vaccine.

So it'll be interestingto see how many people

actually get the coronavirus vaccine

when it is made available to everyone.

- All right, Lorie Johnson,

thank you so much for your insight there.

Much appreciate.