The US is approaching Joe Biden’s target of 100m vaccinations in his first 100 days in office United States, with 90,351,750 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of Sunday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The vaccine doses are for both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines.
The agency said 58,873,710 people had received one or more doses while 30,686,881 people have received the second dose as of Sunday.
A total of 7,389,102 vaccine doses have been administered in long-term care facilities, the CDC
The figures emerged as Dr Anthony Fauci warned it is too early to end Covid-19 restrictions, despite Texas and Mississippi having lifted mask mandates and business capacity limits this week.
States are easing restrictions after a drop in cases, though that decline is starting to plateau at a high rate of 60,000 to 70,000 infections a day.
“We’re going in the right direction but we just need to hang on a bit longer,” Fauci said on Sunday, to CBS’s Face the Nation.
Fauci, chief medical adviser to Joe Biden, said turning restrictions “on and off” risked another surge.
“This is not going to be indefinite, we need to gradually pull back as we get people vaccinated,” he said.
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