U.S.
administers 63.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
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[February 22, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has
administered 63,090,634 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Sunday morning
and delivered 75,204,965 doses, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said.
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The tally of vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech
vaccines as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Sunday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on Feb. 20, the agency had
administered 61,289,500 doses of the vaccines and distributed
79,128,495 doses.
The agency said 43,628,092 people had received one or more doses
while 18,865,319 people have received a second dose as of Sunday.
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A total of 6,519,848 vaccine
doses have been administered in long-term care
facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Bengaluru; Editing by
Daniel Wallis)
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