US Administers Over 350 Million Doses Of COVID-19 -CDC Vaccine



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Jane Nickert, Director of Nursing for the Washtenaw County Department of Health, speaks with someone about to receive their COVID-19 vaccine at an event hosted by Southeast Michigan Pull Over Prevention at Grace Fellowship Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA on August 7, 2021 REUTERS / Emily Elconin

Aug. 7 (Reuters) – The United States administered 350,627,188 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the country on Saturday morning and distributed 407,550,175 doses, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Those numbers are up from the 349,787,479 doses of vaccine that the CDC said it took to arms on Aug.6, out of 405,102,715 doses delivered.

The agency said 194,346,486 people had received at least one dose, while 166,203,176 people were fully vaccinated on Saturday. (https://bit.ly/3iAW4FH)

The CDC’s tally includes the two-dose vaccines from Moderna (MRNA.O) and Pfizer / BioNTech (PFE.N), as well as the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) starting at 6:00 a.m. ET Saturday .

Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Editing by David Gregorio

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