(CNNM) – According to data released Sunday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 63 million doses of the covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States.)
The CDC reported that a total of 63,090,634 doses were administered, about 83% of the 75,204,965 divided doses.
That’s about 1.8 million more doses reported since yesterday Saturday. (The doses administered yesterday were 61,289,500).
About 43.6 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine and more than 18.8 million people have been fully vaccinated, data from the CDC shows.
It is possible that the data released by the CDC is outdated and no doses had been recorded on the day of the report.
About half a million dead
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that the fact that the United States is approaching 500,000 deaths from covid-19 is appalling and the country must continue with public health measures to prevent the situation from getting worse.
It’s awful, Dana, it’s really awful. It’s something historic, nothing like what we’ve been through in the past 102 years since the 1918 flu pandemic. People, decades, Dana, are going to talk about this as a horrible historic milestone, you know, in the history of this country. to have so many people who have died of respiratory infections, ”he said.
“It’s a really awful situation that we’ve been through, and we’re still going through, and that’s why we continue to insist on continuing with public health action because we don’t want this to get much worse than it already is.”