 U.S.
administers 410.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines - CDC
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[October 21, 2021]
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 410,189,737 doses of
COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed
496,915,265 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
said.
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 Those figures are up from the 409,438,987 vaccine doses the CDC said
had gone into arms by Oct. 19 out of 495,844,635 doses delivered.
The agency said 219,381,466 people had received at least one dose
while 189,709,710 people are 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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About 11.2 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 Amruta Khandekar in Bengaluru;
Editing by Maju Samuel)
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