 U.S.
administers 215.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines -
CDC
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[April 22, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has
administered 215,951,909 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of
Wednesday morning and distributed 277,938,875 doses, the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
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 Those figures are up from the 213,388,238 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by April 20 out of 272,030,795 doses delivered.
The agency said 134,445,595 people had received at least one dose
while 87,592,646 people are fully vaccinated as of Wednesday.
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech,
as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET
on Wednesday.
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 A total of 7,782,215 vaccine
doses have been administered in long-term care
facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Editing
by Ramakrishnan M.)
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