It is a remarkable turnaround in the number of Americans receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine, and it only took a month. The Washington Post (no paywall) writes:
On average, about 450,000 Americans a day are getting their first jab, up from 260,000 a little more than a month ago, Jeff Zients, the White House Covid-19 Response Team coordinator, said in an afternoon briefing.
“This is critical progress in the face of the delta variant,” he said. “More and more Americans are stepping up each day to get vaccinated.”
The bump in vaccinations comes as polling shows the pandemic reemerging as Americans’ top concern.
Meanwhile, Forbes reports on where the largest increases are happening.
Some of the states reporting the largest uptick in first doses include those that have lagged behind the national average throughout the coronavirus rollout, Zients added.
In Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, more people have received their initial coronavirus dose in the past month than the prior two months combined.
- Total U.S. vaccine doses administered: 363,915,792
- Percent of U.S. population to receive one dose: 61
- Percent of U.S. population to be fully vaccinated: 52
Pending approval, the White House says booster shots will be available beginning the week of September 20th. The booster should be taken 8 months after your last Covid vaccination. So if you had your first shot on February 1, 2021, and your second on March 1, 2021, then the booster should be taken November 1, 2021.
