COVID-19: The United States has already successfully vaccinated 100 million people with at least one dose

Más de 100 millones de personas recibieron hasta este viernes al menos una dosis de una vacuna contra el covid-19 en Estados Unidos, según datos de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC), the main federal agency of salud pública from the country.

In detail, More than 101.8 million people have received at least one injection of the vaccine and 58 million people are fully vaccinated, including more than one in two people over 65 years of age.

Confirming the dramatic progress of the vaccination campaign in the United States, President Joe Biden promised last week that 90% of adults could receive vaccines by April 19. The Democratic President’s new goal is for Americans to come together “in small groups” to celebrate the Fourth of July National Day.

On March 19, the Biden government announced that it had exceeded the 100 million doses applied nationwide since its inauguration on January 20.

There are currently three licensed vaccines in the United States: Johnson & Johnson (one dose) and the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna (two dose) alliance.

Despite these advances in mass vaccination, the country is experiencing a resurgence of positive cases of coronavirus. According to health authorities, the pandemic causes an average of nearly 1,000 deaths per day in the United States.

The United States reached 30,535,374 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on Thursday and 553,084 deaths from Covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.

California is now the most affected state by the pandemic with 59,378 dead, followed by New York (50,375), Texas (48,495), Florida (33,494), Pennsylvania (25,111), New Jersey (24,591) and Illinois (23,601). The other states with a large number of deaths are Georgia (19,118), Ohio (18,609), Massachusetts (17,217), Michigan (17,174) or Arizona (16,977).

In terms of infections, California has 3,669,769, followed by Texas at 2,797,010, third is Florida at 2,064,525, New York is fourth at 1,882,308 and Illinois is fifth at 1,248,021.

The provisional death toll -553,084- far exceeds the lower limit of initial estimates from the White House, which at the time of Donald Trump predicted at best between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic. President Biden predicted that in total more than 600,000 people in the country would die from the virus.

For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) at the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, estimates that on July 1, some will have died 600,000 people.

With information from AFP and EFE

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