The United States administers an average of 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines per day, according to an analysis from New York Times.
The average increased from a month ago, when the daily average was about 1.3 million doses, according to time.
The increased pace means that the Biden administration is on track to reach its goal of administering 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the first 100 days of President Biden
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According to data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 54 million people received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 27 million received two doses.
A total of 82,572,848 doses have been administered to date, according to CDC data. Forty-two million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 40 million doses of Moderna vaccine were administered.
The increased pace comes as the Biden administration has made concerted efforts to stimulate vaccinations amid initial logistical obstacles.
Biden he said Tuesday that the US will have enough vaccine to vaccinate all American adults by the end of May, which was also a short time since its initial July estimate.
The president also announced a partnership in which Merck will help manufacture the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration authorized on Saturday.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up several mass vaccination points in California, Texas and New York, with more programs to open soon.
The pace comes as the U.S. has recorded 28,759,980 coronavirus infections since the pandemic began a year ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 518,000 died.