Mar 3, 2021 - Health

U.S. 7-day COVID-19 vaccine average tops 2M per day for first time

Rebecca Falconer

Healthcare worker Karen Crawford gives a thumbs up sign, left, as nurse Yolanda Javier administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in LA — Healthcare worker Karen Crawford (L) as nurse Yolanda Javier administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to her at St. John's Well Child & Family Center in Los Angeles in January. Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The U.S. has administered 80,540,474 COVID-19 doses as of Wednesday, CDC data shows.

Why it matters: That's 75% of the 107,028,890 doses delivered. It means some 1.9 million more doses have been reported administered since Tuesday, taking the seven-day average to over 2 million a day for the first time, CNN notes. Nearly 53 million people, or 16% of the U.S. population, have had at least one COVID shot and almost 27 million have had two, per the CDC.

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