According to an analysis by SU, an average of 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines are administered per day The New York Times.
The average is higher than a month ago, when the daily average was 1.3 million doses the times.
The increased rate means that the administration of Biden is on track to reach 100 million COVID-19 doses within the first 100 days after administration. President Biden
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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 54 million people received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 27 million received two doses.
According to CDC data, 82,572,848 doses have been administered so far. Forty-two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 40 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine were administered.
The increase in pace comes when the Biden government made concerted efforts to promote vaccinations amid initial logistical barriers.
Biden said Tuesday that the U.S. will have enough vaccine supplies by the end of May to vaccinate all U.S. adults, which was also a shortened time frame from its initial estimate of July.
The president also announced a partnership under which Merck would assist in the production of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up several mass vaccination sites in California, Texas and New York, with more plan to open soon.
The rate comes as the U.S. recorded 28,759,980 coronavirus infections since the pandemic began a year ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 518,000 died.