According to an analysis of The New York Times
The average has increased from a month ago, when the daily average according to the times
The increased pace means that Biden’s administration is on track to meet its goal of administering 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses within the first 100 days of President Biden
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According to data from the Center 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.
According to CDC data, a total of 82,572,848 doses have been administered so far. Forty-two million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine and 40 million doses of the Moderna vaccine have been administered.
The increased pace is because the Biden government has made concerted efforts to boost vaccinations amid initial logistical hurdles.
Biden said Tuesday that the US will have enough vaccine stock to vaccinate all US adults by the end of May, which was also a shortened time frame from its initial July estimate.
The president also announced a partnership whereby Merck would help produce Johnson & Johnson’s one-time coronavirus vaccine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up several mass vaccination centers in California, Texas and New York, with more scheduled to open soon.
The pace comes as the U.S. records 28,759,980 coronavirus infections since the pandemic began a year ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins UniversityMore than 518,000 have died.