US administers 243.5 m doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC

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The United States has administered 243,463,471 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Saturday.

A total of 240,159,677 vaccine doses had been administered by 30 April, the CDC said.

The agency said 146,239,208 people had received at least one dose while 103,422,555 people were fully vaccinated as of Saturday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc./BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine as of 6 a.m. ET on Saturday.

A total of 7,799,933 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.

 

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