CDC: US has administered more than 400M COVID vaccine doses

By Manas Mishra | Reuters

The United States has administered 400,669,422 doses of COVID-19 vaccines successful the state arsenic of Friday greeting and distributed 485,713,525 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Those figures are up from the 399,552,444 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Thursday retired of 482,326,275 doses delivered.

The bureau said 216,573,911 radical had received astatine slightest 1 dose, portion 186,917,921 radical were afloat vaccinated arsenic of 6:00 a.m. ET connected Friday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech , arsenic good arsenic Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine.

Roughly 7.3 cardinal radical received a booster dose of either Pfizer oregon Moderna’s vaccine since Aug. 13, erstwhile the U.S. authorized a 3rd dose of the vaccines for radical with compromised immune systems who are apt to person weaker extortion from the two-dose regimens.