Half of American adults have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.
Nearly 130 million people, or about 50.4 percent of the total adult population, have received at least one vaccination shot, the CDC said.
Meanwhile, nearly 84 million adults – about 32.5 percent of the population – have been fully vaccinated, the agency said.
Two vaccines are currently available – a two-dose injection made by Pfizer, another two-dose injection by Moderna – after federal regulators temporarily suspended the use of a third, a single-dose shot by Johnson & Johnson, in response for reports of rare blood clots.
Federal officials have yet to determine whether the vaccine caused the blood clotting problems.
But Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that he believes regulators will resume the use of baffles sometime this week, possibly with restrictions or warning.
“I would be very surprised if we don’t have a resumption in some form on Friday,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I don’t really expect them to want to stretch it any longer.”
With Post Wires