The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it would further increase the weekly vaccine shipments the federal government sends to states.
The White House’s COVID-19 response team announced that states will receive 14.5 million doses from next week, a jump of 13.5 million.
The team tweeted that the figure “is an increase of almost 70% since our office took office more than a month ago.”
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This afternoon, we announced that next week we will increase the weekly vaccine supply to states to 14.5 million doses, compared to the 13.5 million we announced last week.
This is an increase of almost 70% since we took office more than a month ago.
White House Response Team COVID-19 (@WHCOVIDResponse) 23 February 2021
The announcement comes a week after the White House announced it would increase the number of doses spread from 11 million to 13.5 million.
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The Biden government is stepping up its vaccination efforts in light of a number of variants that appear more contagious than the original strain of the coronavirus that is spreading around the world. COVID-19 cases are falling all over the country, but the presence of the variants threatens to make the drop only temporary.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 65 million people have been vaccinated with at least one shot of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, the only two so far approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Of the people, nearly 20 million received both doses, or about 6 percent of the U.S. population.
The expansion of the distribution of the vaccines by the federal government comes as Moderna and Pfizer said on Tuesday that they would be able to deliver more than 130 million additional doses by the end of March. The two companies already have contracts to supply 600 million doses.