Since Monday, more Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine than tested positive for the disease, according to Bloomberg vaccine follow-up.
Bloomberg vaccination data show that 26.5 million Americans received one or more doses of the vaccine, exceeding the total of nearly 26.3 million cases of coronavirus that Johns Hopkins University recorded.
The Bloomberg vaccine tracking system has established that the US vaccinates people at a higher rate than any other country, with about 1.34 million photos taken per day.
Since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine first became available in the United States last month, followed by the Moderna vaccine, nearly 7.8 percent of Americans have received one or more doses of the vaccine and 1.8 percent, or 5.82 million, received the required two doses. .
According to Bloomberg, three other nations have reached the vaccination benchmark more than the cases confirmed before the US: Israel, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.
In the US, deaths and hospitalizations rose to unprecedented heights in January and have just begun to decline.
Vaccinations bring the country closer to herd immunity, which will prevent the virus from spreading. Health experts – including the largest infectious disease expert in the US, Anthony Fauci
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Countries around the world are currently facing COVID-19 variants, first found in the UK and South Africa, which are thought to be more contagious than the original strain. Initial studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine suggested that it is still effective against mutations in these strains.