Since Monday, more Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine than tested positive for the disease, said Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker.
Bloomberg’s vaccination data shows that 26.5 million Americans have received one or more doses of the vaccine, making up the total of nearly 26.3 million coronavirus cases. Johns Hopkins University has recorded.
Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker found that the US is vaccinating people faster than any other country, with about 1.34 million injections per day.
Since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first in the US last month, followed by the Moderna vaccine, nearly 7.8 percent of Americans have received one or more doses of a vaccine and 1.8 percent, or 5.82 million, has received the necessary two doses. .
According to Bloomberg, three other countries hit the milestone of more vaccinations than confirmed cases for the US: Israel, the UK and the United Arab Emirates.
In the US, deaths and hospitalizations rose to unprecedented levels in January and are just starting to decline.
The vaccinations bring the country closer to herd immunity, preventing the virus from spreading. Health experts – including the US’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci
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Countries around the world are currently dealing with COVID-19 variants, which were first found in the UK and South Africa and believed to be more contagious than the original species. Initial studies of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine have suggested that it is still effective against mutations in these strains.