The country had administered 437,352,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines
in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 551,000,705
doses.
Those figures are up from the 434,486,889 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by Nov. 10 out of the 541,361,525 doses
delivered.
The agency said 225,606,197 people had received at least one dose
while 194,747,839 people had been fully vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m.
ET on Friday.
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech,,
as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine.
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About 27.7 million people have
received a booster dose of either Pfizer,
Moderna or Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
Booster doses from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson
were authorized by the U.S. health regulator on
Oct. 20.
Around 16 million people above the age of 65
years had received a third dose.
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru;
Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
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