According to an analysis of, the United States administers an average of two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines per day The New York Times.
The average has increased from a month ago, when the daily average was about 1.3 million doses, according to the times.
The increase in pace means that the Biden administration is on track to reach its goal of administering 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the first 100 days President Biden
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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 54 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 27 million have received two doses.
To date, a total of 82,572,848 doses have been administered, according to CDC data. Forty-two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 40 million doses of the Modern vaccine have been administered.
The pace of growth comes when the Biden administration made great efforts to increase vaccinations amid early logistical hurdles.
Biden he said Tuesday that the United States will have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all American adults by the end of May, which was also a short period of time since its initial July estimate.
The president also announced a partnership under which Merck would help manufacture Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration authorized Saturday.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has created several mass vaccination sites in California, Texas and New York, with more scheduled to open soon.
The pace comes as the United States has recorded 28,759,980 coronavirus infections since the pandemic began a year ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 518,000 have died.