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(Reuters) – The United States had administered 394,690,283 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country on Saturday and distributed 478,362,045 doses, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Those numbers are up from the 393,756,866 vaccine doses that the CDC said had gone into arms on Friday out of 477,069,555 doses delivered.
The agency said 214,870,696 people had received at least one dose while 185,143,698 people had been fully immunized by 6:00 a.m. ET on Saturday.
The CDC’s tally includes the two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, as well as the single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.
About 4.74 million people have received an additional dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine since August 13, when the United States authorized a third dose of the vaccine for people with weakened immune systems who are likely to have weaker protection against two-dose regimens.
(Reporting by Maria Ponnerhath in Bangalore; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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