U.S. CDC says 275.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered
Sandra Cervantes, 14, receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination at a vaccine clinic for newly eligible 12 to 15-year-olds in Pasadena, California, U.S., May 14, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
U.S. administers 275.5 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
May 18, 2021; 3:27 PM EDT
(Reuters) – The United States has administered 275,535,207 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed 346,672,525 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
Those figures are up from the 274,411,901 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by May 17 out of 344,503,595 doses delivered.
The agency said 158,365,411 people had received at least one dose while 124,455,693 people are fully vaccinated as of Tuesday.
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell
According to CDC, around 600,000 children ages 12 to 15 have received COVID-19 vaccinations in the U.S. read more
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna (MRNA.O) and Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), , as well as Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ.N) one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
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