More than 2.1 million Americans have received the first injection of covid

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that as of Monday morning, the US had administered 2,127,143 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country and dispensed 11,445,175 doses.

The number of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose is for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, COVID-19 vaccines from 9 a.m. ET Monday, the agency said.

According to the census published December 26, the agency had administered 1,944,585 first vaccine doses and distributed 9,547,925 doses.

So an additional 182,558 doses were distributed in two days.

Most of these early doses have gone to health professionals, although some states have begun to vaccinate older Americans living in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.

US coronavirus test Tsar Admiral Brett Giroir says any American who wants to be vaccinated can do so in June.

Vaccines were developed in record time, but they cannot be spread quickly enough, as COVID-19 hospitalizations in the US have remained around 100,000 for almost all of December, and the death toll rises above 334,000.

The CDC has not yet released a state breakdown of vaccine distribution or injections, and only a handful of individual states have published their own standards.

Operation Warp Speed ​​claimed it would be able to vaccinate 20 million of the most endangered Americans by the end of 2020 to the past few weeks. Officials never made it clear whether 20 million people would receive their first or both doses alone by the end of the year.

Admiral Brett Giroir, the czar of the U.S. coronavirus test, insisted the two million figure is an underestimate, but admitted the surgery is not on track to vaccinate ten times as many people as are documented to be vaccinated in the coming years. three days.

“The figure of two million is probably an underestimate, we have distributed 10.8 million doses to the states,” Admiral Giroir told Good Morning America on Monday.

That number of two million has been delayed three to seven days. We certainly expect that to be a multiple of two million.

‘We are going to divide another 4.7 million this week, so by the end of this week, in the hands of the states [will be] more than 15.5 million doses. ‘

Both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines must be administered in two doses. Moderna’s is administered 28 days after the first and Pfizer’s is administered 21 days later.

Each vaccine has been developed and mass-produced in record time, but they are plagued by logistical clumsiness.

In the first of the introduction of the Pfizer vaccine, Operation Warp Speed ​​officials claimed that Pfizer was struggling to meet its manufacturing goals, while Pfizer denied any manufacturing problems and instead blamed the government’s allotment process.

Caught in the crosshairs were dozens of states that said their allocations had been reduced. Operation Warp Speed ​​said the allocation numbers were estimates subject to change, not exact promises.

The CDC’s census is the first consolidated glimpse of the number of shots actually given, but it will inevitably fall short of the actual number of vaccinations, as cities, counties and states put their own tracking systems online and report to the national agency.

The few status dashboards available are slow to roll out.

Idaho was one of the first states to publish its dashboard, reporting 10,459 doses administered.

About 140,000 frontline and nursing home workers have vaccinated in New York, which received one of the largest initial allocations in the U.S.