According to Sunday morning, 50% of U.S. adults 18 and older received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, according to the CDC’s vaccination data.
The CDC vaccine detection shows that 129,988,985 people 18 and older in this country received at least one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or the single-dish Johnson & Johnson vaccine. This is 50.4% of the adult population.
Some of the vaccines have been approved for emergency use in teens as young as 16 years old. If these vaccinations were included, there were 131,247,546 vaccinations on Sunday morning, or about 39.5% of the entire population of this country.
Just over 84 million Americans were fully vaccinated, about 25.4% of the population, meaning they received both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Moderna and Pfizer are currently testing the efficacy of their vaccines in younger children. Pfizer has applied to the FDA for approval to give their vaccine to children as young as 12 years old. The FDA has not yet responded to their request.
The increasing vaccination rate has led some cities and states to weaken restrictions on masks, gatherings and indoor capabilities.
However, the attenuation limitations, coupled with rapidly spreading variants of the coronavirus, cause more reported cases.
In America, infection rates remain stubbornly high and are rising sharply in some parts of the country.
Nationwide, the number of new infections has averaged over 50,000 a day since mid-October, According to the CDC.
Unfortunately, the world reached 3 million deaths on COVID-19 on Saturday, according to the Johns Hopkins University.