U.S. administers nearly 349 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines — CDC
FILE PHOTO: People wait in line to be inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a vaccination site at the Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center in Arlington, Texas, U.S. February 12, 2021. REUTERS/Cooper Neill
(Reuters) — The United States has administered 348,966,419 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 403,047,945 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Those figures are up from the 348,102,478 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Aug. 4, out of 402,010,455 doses delivered.
The agency said 193,199,353 people had received at least one dose, while 165,637,566 people were fully vaccinated as of Thursday.
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)’s one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Thursday.
