By Reuters|Nov. 5, 2021, at 4:39 p.m.SaveMore
U.S. Administers 428 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines – CDCMore
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States has administered 428,006,540 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 531,287,645 doses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Those figures are up from the 426,728,092 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Nov 4, out of 528,775,895 doses delivered.
The agency said 222,902,939 people had received at least one dose, while 193,425,862 people were fully vaccinated as of 6:00am ET on Friday.
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine.
About 22.3 million people have received a booster dose of either Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Booster doses from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson were authorised by the US health regulator on Oct 20.
Meanwhile, the US Food and Drug Administration said it had authorised the use of two more batches of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine manufactured at the problem-plagued Baltimore factory of Emergent BioSolutions.
The FDA has now authorised 11 batches of the vaccine manufactured at the facility.
In April, US authorities halted production after ingredients from AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, also being produced at the plant at the time, contaminated a batch of J&J’s vaccine.
Today’s authorisation was based on a thorough review of facility records and quality testing by the manufacturer, and considering the current COVID-19 public health emergency, the health agency said in a statement.
An estimated 30 million to 50 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine made early this year have been sitting idle in the Baltimore plant for weeks awaiting a green light from US regulators to ship, two sources familiar with the matter said late last month. — NNN-AGENCIES
