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U.S. administers nearly 333 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC – Metro US

U.S. administers nearly 333 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC

FILE PHOTO: Vaccination center in California
FILE PHOTO: Vaccination center in California

(Reuters) – The United States had administered 332,966,409 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 386,058,070 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Those figures are up from the 332,345,797 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by July 8 out of 385,495,790 doses delivered.

The agency said 183,542,871 people had received at least one dose while 158,629,431 people were fully vaccinated as of Friday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday.

(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)