The United States has applied more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country, according to official data released this Friday.

A total of 101,128,005 doses have been administered since vaccination began in the United States in mid-December, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which also reported a record number of 2.9 million injections in the last 24 hours.

In the country, three vaccines are authorized for distribution: Johnson & Johnson, which needs one dose to be effective, and Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, which need two.

In addition, the United States government announced on Friday that will recruit dentists, veterinarians and health students to strengthen its vaccination campaign against covid-19.

“The Department of Health and Human Services will launch a new portal to help people determine where they can register as volunteers to administer vaccines,” Marcella Nunez-Smith, who leads the team, told reporters. government health equity.

The government had already authorized all active and retired doctors and nurses in the past five years to administer the vaccines.

With the new measure, dentists, paramedics, midwives, optometrists, paramedics, medical assistants, podiatrists, respiratory therapists and veterinarians are licensed, as well as students in these fields.

The United States, whose vaccination campaign began on December 14, administers about 2.2 million vaccines per day, while nearly 65% ​​of Americans 65 and older have received at least their first dose.

At the same time, The United States highlighted on Friday that their priority is to vaccinate their population as soon as possible, defend its decision not to share its doses with other countries or allies, including Europe. “There have been requests from all over the world, of course from several countries that have requested doses from the United States and we have not provided doses from the United States government to anyone,” the spokeswoman said. White House, Jen Psaki.

Psaki’s statement comes two days after US President Joe Biden confirmed that his government will “share” the covid-19 vaccines it has purchased with the rest of the world if it has any surpluses.

“If we have surpluses, we will share them with the rest of the world”, said biden Wednesday at a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the agreement whereby pharmaceutical company Merck will help manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

On a related note, White House covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said the United States had suffered “more than half a million deaths, more than any country. of the world”.

“We are therefore rightly focusing on vaccinating Americans as quickly as possible,” argued the official, who, while ensuring he was satisfied with the number of doses administered, admitted that “there is still a long way to go. to browse”.

With information from AFP and EFE

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