EU vaccine against Covid at a rate of 3 million daily doses

USA reported this Saturday that more than 4 million Covid vaccines in a single day for the first time. More than three million people, on average, are immunized each day in USA, according to the data of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for its acronym in English).

“First day with 4 million or more. It is also the first time it has averaged more than 3 million per day for the past week. Millions are coming together to accelerate our progress toward controlling the pandemic! ”Tweeted Cyrus Shahpar, COVID-19 data director at the White House.

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At the beginning of March, USA exceeded the average of two million administered doses every day. In January, the average was around 800,000 daily doses. According to the data of the CDC, a third of the population of the USA have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

However, the average number of new Covid cases reported has increased 19% in the last two weeks, according to official figures, and federal health officials are alert to the possibility of a new wave of infections.

“We have so much to look forward to, so many promises and the potential of where we are, and so many reasons for hope,” said the doctor. Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director, this week. “But right now I’m scared,” he said.

The CDC indicated this week that they estimate that if the trend continues the number of new Covid-19 cases weekly in the United States could reach 700 thousand by the end of April.

Federal health officials said Friday that Americans who have completed their vaccination schedule against Covid they can travel “at low risk to themselves” within the United States and abroad.

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According to figures of the CDC, 31.4% of the population have already received at least one dose of the vaccinewhile 18% of Americans are completely vaccinated. As for people 65 years and older, 75% have received at least one dose, while 54.7% have their full vaccination schedule.

So far, the authorities of the country have given the green light for emergency use to the preparations of Pfizer, Modern and Johnson & Johnson (The first two require two doses administered several weeks apart, while the last is a single dose).

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