U.S. administers 70.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
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[February 27, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 70,454,064 doses of
COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed
94,300,910 doses.
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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 Friday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on Feb. 25, the agency had
administered 68,274,117 doses of the vaccines, and distributed
91,673,010 doses.
The agency said 47,184,199 people had received one or more doses
while 22,613,359 people have got the second dose as of Friday.
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A total of 6,933,071 vaccine
doses have been administered in long-term care
facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru;
Editing by Shailesh Kuber)
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