One out of three Americans fully vaccinated for COVID-19, CDC says
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[May 08, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has fully vaccinated 110,874,920 people
for COVID-19 as of Friday morning, accounting for 33.4% of the
population, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on
Friday.
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 The country has administered 254,779,333 doses of COVID-19 vaccines
in the country and distributed 327,124,625 doses.
Those figures are up from the 251,973,752 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by May 6 out of 324,610,185 doses delivered.
The agency said 150,416,559 people had received at least one dose as
of Friday.
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 Friday.
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 A total of 7,808,441 vaccine
doses have been administered in long-term care
facilities, the agency said.
(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru; Editing
by Shailesh Kuber)
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