One in three Americans aged 65 and above has acquired a COVID-19 booster shot, knowledge from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Friday.
The nation had administered 437,352,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines within the nation as of Friday morning and distributed 551,000,705 doses.
Those figures are up from the 434,486,889 vaccine doses the CDC mentioned had gone into arms by Nov. 10 out of the 541,361,525 doses delivered.
The company mentioned 225,606,197 individuals had acquired not less than one dose whereas 194,747,839 individuals had been totally vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday. The CDC tally consists of two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech,, in addition to Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine.
About 27.7 million individuals have acquired a booster dose of both Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. Booster doses from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson had been approved by the U.S. well being regulator on Oct. 20. Around 16 million individuals above the age of 65 years had acquired a 3rd dose.