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U.S. administers 273.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC – Metro US

U.S. administers 273.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC

FILE PHOTO: Sandra Cervantes, 14, receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
FILE PHOTO: Sandra Cervantes, 14, receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination at a vaccine clinic for newly eligible 12 to 15-year-olds in Pasadena

(Reuters) – The United States has administered 273,545,207 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 344,503,495 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

Those figures are up from the 270,832,342 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Saturday out of 344,503,395 doses delivered.

The agency said 157,485,596 people had received at least one dose, while 123,282,685 people are fully vaccinated.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech as well as Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine as of 6 a.m. ET (1000 GMT) on Sunday.

(Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)