59.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed, 39 million administered: CDC USA

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PHOTO FILE: A farm worker is inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine as health professionals come to the farming community to administer vaccines during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mecca, California, USA, February 1, 2021. REUTERS / Mike Blake

(Reuters) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had distributed 59,304,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States and that 39,037,964 doses had been administered since Saturday morning.

The accounts are for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech, vaccines starting at 6:00 ET on Saturday, the agency said.

According to its number published on Friday, the agency administered 36,819,212 doses of vaccines and distributed 58,380,300 doses.

The agency said 30,250,964 people received 1 or more doses, while 8,317,180 people received the second dose as of Saturday.

A total of 4,628,962 doses of the vaccine were given in long-term care units, the agency said.

Derek Francis’s report in Bengaluru; Edited by Dan Grebler

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