One
of two Americans have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine -
CDC
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[May 26, 2021]
(Reuters) - Nearly one out of two Americans
have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday,
while half the citizens above the age of 18 in the country have been
fully vaccinated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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The agency said 164,378,258 people, or 49.5% of the total U.S.
population, had received at least one dose, while 131,078,608
people, or 50% of the adult population, in the country are fully
vaccinated.
The United States has administered 287,788,872 doses of COVID-19
vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed
359,004,955 doses, according to the agency.
Those figures are up from the 286,890,900 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by May 24 out of the 357,250,475 doses delivered.
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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 Tuesday.
(Compiled by Amruta Khandekar in Bengaluru;
Editing by Amy Caren Daniel)
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