{"id":119643,"date":"2021-04-21T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T02:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119643"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T02:28:40","slug":"covid-19-half-of-us-adults-have-had-at-least-one-coronavirus-vaccine-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119643","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Half of US adults have had at least one coronavirus vaccine dose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/Half-of-US-adults-have-had-at-least-one-coronavirus-vaccine-dose-1237552?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/731\/73156266.295.jpg\" alt=\"Almost 210 million doses have been administered in the country with the population of 330 milion\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Almost 210 million doses have been administered in the country with the population of 330 milion<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than half of all adults in the United States have received at least a first dose of coronavirus vaccine.<br><br>Since the US started its vaccine drive four months ago, 50.4 per cent of adults &#8211; some 130 million people &#8211; have had at least one jab, according to figures from the country&#8217;s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Almost one-third of adults have been fully vaccinated.<br><br>Among the higher-risk group of those aged 65 and older, 81 per cent have had a first dose, and around two-thirds are fully vaccinated.<br><br>An average of more than 3 million shots are currently being administered daily, according to the White House.<br><br>In total, almost 210 million doses have been administered in the country, which has a population of 330 million.<br><br>A nurse received the country&#8217;s first jab in New York on Dec 14, 2020.<br>The US is largely using Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, and recently suspended shots from Johnson &amp; Johnson after six US cases of cerebral venous thrombosis were recorded.<br><br>The Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine requires only one injection to be fully effective, while two doses are required for the other vaccines. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 210 million doses have been administered in the country with the population of 330 milion WASHINGTON, April 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than half of all adults in the United States have received at least a first dose of coronavirus vaccine. Since the US started its vaccine drive four months ago, 50.4 per cent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}