U.S.
administers 80.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
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[March 04, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has
administered 80,540,474 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Wednesday
morning and delivered 107,028,890 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 Wednesday, the agency said.
According to the tally posted on March 2, the agency had
administered 78,631,601 doses of the vaccines and distributed
102,353,940 doses.
The agency said 52,855,579 people had received one or more doses,
while 26,957,804 people have got the second dose as of Wednesday.
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A total of 7,218,655 vaccine
doses have been administered in long-term care
facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Amy Caren
Daniel)
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