U.S.
administers nearly 445 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines - CDC
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[November 18, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States had
administered 444,789,186 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of
Wednesday morning and distributed 558,460,315 doses, the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Those figures are up from the 443,374,199 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by Nov. 16 out of 556,077,145 doses delivered.
The agency said 228,175,638 people had received at least one dose
while 195,612,365 people had been fully vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m.
ET on Wednesday.
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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![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2021/Nov/18/images/ads/current/burtonview_coop_sdadaily_FFARM_2020.png) About 31.5 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.
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru;
Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
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