Close to 60 Million Vaccine Doses Administered in the United States: CDC
Close to 60 million vaccine doses have been administered in the United States, per the most recent available data from the Centers for Disease Control.
As of this posting, the CDC’s tracker puts total doses administered at 59.6 million — with almost over 40 million getting their first dose already and 17 million getting two doses.
CNN: 59 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the United States.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) February 19, 2021
The Biden administration has said that winter storms have caused delays of roughly six million doses right now.
As the vaccine rollout continues across the country, the covid death toll in the United States is close to 500,000 total.
Overall, per data from the COVID Tracking Project, total daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have been dropping in recent days. Today’s numbers reported 75,000 new cases, a little under 60,000 hospitalizations, and 2,477 deaths.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are now under 60k for the first time since November 9, bringing us back down to the peak levels of hospitalizations we saw in the spring and summer surges. pic.twitter.com/zK04ZrtWtc
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) February 20, 2021
