 U.S.
administers nearly 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines - CDC
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[October 08, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has
administered 399,552,444 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of
Thursday morning and distributed 482,326,275 doses, the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said.
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 Those figures are up from the 398,675,414 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by Wednesday, out of 480,427,985 doses delivered.
The agency said 216,268,034 people had received at least one dose,
while 186,618,184 people were fully vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m. ET on
Thursday.
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 6.8 million people
received a booster dose of either Pfizer or
Moderna's vaccine since Aug. 13, when the U.S.
authorized a third dose of the vaccines for
people with compromised immune systems who are
likely to have weaker protection from the
two-dose regimens.
(Reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing
by Shinjini Ganguli)
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