More than 2.1 million Americans have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine – but the US will miss the goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020
- CDC data show that 2,127,143 first doses of coronavirus vaccines were administered from both Pfizer and Moderna
- Nearly 11.5 million doses were shipped in all 50 states cumulatively
- US officials have promised for months to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of the year
- Another 4.7 million doses will be shipped to states this week, meaning a total of 15.5 million doses will be distributed by the end of the year, but will not be administered.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the United States had administered 2,127,143 first doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country since Monday morning and distributed 11,445,175 doses.
The number of vaccine doses distributed and the number of people who received the first dose are for both Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, COVID-19 months, starting at 9:00 ET, the agency said.
According to the account published on December 26, the agency administered 1,944,585 doses of vaccine and distributed 9,547,925 doses.
So, another 182,558 doses were given in two days.
Most of these early doses were given to health care workers, although some states have begun vaccinating elderly Americans living in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.
Bitter Brett Giroir, an American coronavirus tester, says any American who wants to be vaccinated will be able to do so by June.
Vaccines have been developed in record time, but cannot be distributed quickly enough, as COVID-19 hospitalizations remain in the US for about 100,000 for almost the entire month of December, and the death toll rises to over 334,000.
More than 2.1 million health care workers and nursing home residents had received the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines since Monday morning, CDC data show.
The CDC has not yet launched a state-by-state breakdown of vaccine distribution or injections, and only a handful of individual states have published their own accounts.
Operation Warp Speed has claimed that it will be able to vaccinate 20 million of the most at risk of Americans by the end of 2020 until the last weeks. Officials have never said whether 20 million people will receive only the first doses or both by the end of the year.
Admiral Brett Giroir, the American coronavirus test tsar, insisted that the two million figure is an understatement, but acknowledged that the operation is not on the vaccination rate ten times more people who are documented as vaccinated in the next three days .
“The number of two million is probably an underestimation, we have distributed 10.8 million doses to the states,” Admiral Giroir told Good Morning America on Monday.
“This number of two million is delayed by three to seven days. We certainly expect it to be a multiple of two million.
“We will distribute another 4.7 million this week, so by the end of this week, in the hands of the states [will be] over 15.5 million doses. ‘
Moderna and Pfizer vaccines should be given in two doses. Moderna is given 28 days after the first, and Pfizer is given 21 days later.
Each vaccine was developed and mass-produced at a record speed – but was affected by logistical fumes.
In the first launch of the Pfizer vaccine, Operation Warp Speed officials claimed that Pfizer was struggling to meet its production targets, while Pfizer denied any production issues and blamed the government allocation process.
Caught in the spotlight were dozens of states that said their allowances had been reduced. Operation Warp Speed said the allocation numbers were estimates subject to change, not exact promises.
The CDC account is the first consolidated look at the number of photos that have been given, but it will inevitably remain behind the actual number of vaccinations, as cities, counties and states will bring their own online tracking systems and report to the national agency.
Of the few dashboards available, the launch is slow.
Idaho was among the first states to post its dashboard and reports 10,459 doses administered.
About 140,000 front-line workers and nursing home residents have been vaccinated in New York, which has received one of the largest initial allowances in the United States.