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A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at an emerging community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, USA, on February 23, 2021. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid
75% of adults in the United States have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
The agency said 193,798,688 adults have had at least one shot, while 165,947,460 people, or 64.3% of the adult population, are fully vaccinated.
The United States has administered 375,995,378 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the country as of Tuesday morning and has distributed 450,122,155 doses.
These figures exceed the 374,488,924 doses of vaccine that according to the CDC had gone into arms on September 4th.
The CDC count includes two-dose Modern (MRNA.O) and Pfizer / BioNTech (PFE.N) vaccines, in addition to the Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) single vaccine.
More than 1.4 million people have received an additional dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine since Aug. 13, when the United States authorized a third dose of vaccines for people with compromised immune systems who are likely to have more protection. weak against two-dose regimens.
Report by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Edited by Amy Caren Daniel
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