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First entry: Sunday April 4, 2021, 09:30
More than 4 million doses of the new coronavirus vaccine were administered in 24 hours in the United States, said Dr. Cyrus Sapar, head of the White House pandemic data department.
Welcoming the “record day”, Dr. Sapar explained that “in total, 4.08 million doses were administered yesterday”, with the vaccines “exceeding 4 million for the first time”, while, also for the first time Once, vaccinations exceeded 3 million a day on average in the last week, “in a post on the social networking site Twitter.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that the number of Americans who have received at least one dose of the vaccine has exceeded 100 million, while 57,984,785 million have received the second and are now considered fully immunized. .
In late January, US President Joe Biden promised to administer 100 million doses of the vaccine in the first 100 days of his term. In March he set a new goal: for vaccines to reach 200 million doses in the first 100 days of his term.
The vaccines licensed for emergency use in the United States are Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, which are given in two doses, and Johnson & Johnson, which are given in one.
The United States is by far the worst country in the world affected by a pandemic with at least 554,000 deaths from COVID-19 out of a total of 30.6 million cases of SARS-CoV-2.
Last update: Sunday, April 4, 2021, 09:30
