According to the White House, the United States set the world record for the largest number of COVID-19 vaccines administered in a single day.
In a tweet, White House COVID-19 data director Cyrus Shahpar announced that the U.S. administered nearly 3.4 million doses on Friday, surpassing the country’s previous daily high of 2.9 million on 12 of March.
Just a new daily record! + 3.38M of notified doses administered, out of yesterday’s total. Average of 7 days now 2.62 M / day.
– Cyrus Shahpar (@ cyrusshahpar46) March 26, 2021
A day later the record news arrives President Biden
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“It’s true: 200 million shots in 100 days,” Biden said. “I know it’s ambitious, double our original goal. But no other country in the world has even come close, not even close to what we’re doing. I think we can do it.”
The United States exceeded Biden’s initial target of 100 million administered doses administered on March 12th.
As of Friday, 48,695,172 people are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or 14.7 percent of the total U.S. population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The same statistics show that 89,559,225 people, or 27%, have received at least one dose of the vaccine.