Nearly 34 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported that 33,878,254 total doses were administered – about 61% of the 55,943,800 doses distributed. That’s about 1.1 million doses given since yesterday.
The pace of vaccinations has steadily increased over time.
On December 30, the seven-day average was about 255,000 photos a day.
This number rose to 359,000 on January 6; 710,000 on January 13; 892,000 on January 20; 1.16 million on January 27; and now 1.32 million on February 3.
At the current rate, every adult in the United States could be fully vaccinated in about a year.
Assuming that 75% of US adults need to be fully vaccinated to get herd immunity, the US could reach this threshold around Halloween.
Just over 8% of the US population – more than 27 million people – have now received at least one dose of vaccine, and about 6.4 million people have been completely vaccinated, according to CDC data.
Data note: States have 72 hours to report vaccine data, so data published by the CDC may be delayed – and this does not necessarily mean that all doses were administered on the reported day.