The United States has administered 275.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

The race for the COVID-19 vaccine is unfolding at completely different speeds in each country. In the case of The United States administered 275 535 207 COVID-19 vaccine doses and distributed 346,672,525 doses. The information comes from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

These figures are greater than 274 411 901 doses of vaccine that the CDC had reported to have been administered on May 17 of the 344,503,595 doses administered.

The agency said that 158 365 411 people had received at least one dose, while 124 455 693 people were fully vaccinated on Tuesday.

The CDC tally includes the two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, as well as the single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.

According to the CDC, about 600,000 children aged 12 to 15 received the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. This country has achieved this quantity of vaccines after regulators have cleared vaccines from vaccines Pfizer Inc. (PFE.N) y BioNTech for use in this age group, according to Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“In all, more than 4 million people under 17 they have been vaccinated in the United States so far, ”he added. The first American specialist in infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, said he hopes that at the end of 2021 The United States has sufficient safety data to immunize children of all ages.

U.S. regulators cleared Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for 12-year-olds last week. Most states started immunizing children last Thursday, but some, including Georgia, started earlier.

Pfizer’s vaccine is the first to be approved in the United States for children aged 12 to 15. Vaccination at an early age is considered important for children to return to school safely. US President Joe Biden has called on states to immediately make the vaccine available to young adolescents.

The vaccine has been available under emergency use authorization for people as young as 16 in the United States since December.

Fauci also said on Tuesday that existing COVID-19 vaccines likely also protect against the new variant of the coronavirus first discovered in India, which has battled the world’s largest increase in COVID-19 infections.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, confirmed this Monday that his administration will send 20 million more doses than initially announced to third countries in the coming weeks, bringing the total to 80 million.

“This figure represents 13 percent of all vaccines produced in the United States,” said the president.

In a White House statement, Biden explained that the original 60 million doses will be AstraZeneca -whose application has not yet been authorized in the country- and an additional 20 million will come from the three laboratories that have received approval from the health authorities: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna y Johnson & Johnson.

Those from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory, however, They will only be shipped after approval from the Food and Drug Administration. (FDA).

With information from Reuters

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