Here is how events are unfolding. All times Eastern.
Jan 24, 2021, 2:46 PM EST
Biden attends church with family
Biden continued his weekly routine of attending mass and chose Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown as his place of worship for his first Sunday in office.
President Joe Biden waves as he departs after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Jan. 24, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Patrick Semansky/AP
A pool report indicated that Biden's son Hunter, and two granddaughters, Maisey and Finnegan Biden attended mass with him. The presidential motorcade also stopped at a bagel shop. The president was not seen getting out, but a reporter was told Hunter Biden went inside to pick up food. The president and his family returned to the White House a few minutes later.
-ABC News' Molly Nagle
Jan 24, 2021, 10:52 AM EST
Murthy on vaccine supply, distribution: There are lots of challenges
In his appearance on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, Biden’s nominee for Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that when it comes to meeting the goal for 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days of the president's administration, there are things that could go right or wrong.
"I think President Biden fully understands there's a larger goal here, as we all do, which is that we've got to vaccinate as many Americans as possible. And that's going to take a lot of work, work dispelling this disinformation, working on the supply, increasing distribution channels," he told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos. "And that's some of what the vaccine plan that he announced over the last week is intended to -- to achieve."
Stephanopoulos pressed Murthy on whether there are ways to increase the supply and equitably distribute the vaccines.
"It appears, at least in these first vaccines that have gone out, they've been going largely to wealthier areas of the country, largely to whiter areas of the country," Stephanopoulos said.
Dr. Vivek Murthy appears on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Jan. 24, 2021.
ABC News
"Well, it's the right question, George, because success has to be gauged not just by the number of vaccines we deliver but also by how fairly we deliver those vaccines -- how equitably we deliver them," he said in response. "What we've got to do here is not just, again, increase supply, which we can do using the Defense Production Act ... but we've also got to set up the kind of distribution channels, like mobile units, like strategically placed community vaccination centers, that can reach people who traditionally are hard to reach and don't have access to health care."
He added, "We have got to track our progress. We have got to make sure that we have data on where the vaccine is being administered, so that we can ensure that it, in fact, is being distributed equitably."
Jan 24, 2021, 10:33 AM EST
Can Biden unite the country? FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver answers
"I think the obvious answer is no. But I do think he has above average chances of having a successful first year or two in office if he can get the COVID pandemic under control," FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver said in response to the question, "Can President Joe Biden unite the country?"
Jan 24, 2021, 9:53 AM EST
Biden surgeon general nominee on 100M shots in 1st 100 days: 'That's a floor, it's not a ceiling'
“He set a goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days … that’s a floor, it’s not a ceiling,” Biden’s nominee for Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says when pressed by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on whether the Biden administration’s vaccination plan is ambitious enough.
Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Stephanopoulos also asked Murthy if he is confident the U.S. can meet the goal of opening most elementary schools in the first 100 days of the Biden administration.
"That’s a very important goal," Murthy responded. "It’s going to take a lot of work."
