As of Sunday morning, 50% of American adults over the age of 18 have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, according to CDC vaccination data.
He CDC vaccine follower shows that 129,988,985 people aged 18 and over in this country have received at least one dose of the Pfizer or Modern vaccine or the Johnson & Johnson single vaccine. It is 50.4% of the adult population.
Some of the vaccines are approved for emergency use in teens up to 16 years old. When these vaccines are included, there have been 131,247,546 vaccines as of Sunday morning, or about 39.5% of the entire population of this country.
Just over 84 million Americans are fully vaccinated, approximately 25.4% of the population, meaning they have received doses of the Pfizer or Modern vaccine or the unique Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Moderna and Pfizer are currently testing the effectiveness of their vaccines in younger children. Pfizer has applied to the FDA for approval to administer the vaccine to children up to 12 years of age. The FDA has not yet responded to his request.
The growing vaccination rate has caused some cities and states to relax restrictions on masks, meetings and indoor capacity.
However, relaxation restrictions, combined with rapidly spreading coronavirus variants, are causing more reported cases.
In the United States, infection rates remain stubbornly high and rise sharply in some parts of the country.
Nationally, the number of new infections has remained, on average, above 50,000 daily since mid-October, According to the CDC.
Unfortunately, on Saturday the world reached 3 million deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University monitoring.