Chauphuong Ly Dinh, 50, will receive a vaccination against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Los Angeles, California, US, April 12, 2021. REUTERS / Lucy Nicholson
Just over half of U.S. adults have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Sunday, with nearly 130 million people 18 or older having their first injection have got.
That figure makes up about 50.4% of the total adult U.S. population, according to the CDC, and marks a milestone for the country that has seen more than 560,000 deaths from the pandemic, the highest for any single country, as the government now has it. pace of vaccination.
The United States had administered 209,406,814 doses of COVID-19 vaccines across the country and distributed 264,505,725 doses as of Sunday morning, the CDC said on Sunday.
Those numbers are higher than the 205,871,913 vaccine doses that the CDC said went into arms on April 17 out of the 264,499,715 doses administered.
The agency said 131,247,546 people had received at least one dose, while 84,263,408 people had been fully vaccinated as of Sunday.
The CDC count includes two dose vaccines from Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and Pfizer Inc / BioNTech (PFE.N), <22UAy.DE>, as well as the Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) one-time vaccine, from 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT) on Sunday.
On Tuesday, U.S. federal health agencies recommended interrupting use of J & J’s COVID-19 vaccine for a few days after six women under age 50 developed rare blood clots after receiving the injection.
A total of 7,779,273 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care settings, the agency said.
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