60% of Seniors Now Vaccinated, 123 Million Doses Have Been Delivered in US
The Center for Disease Control reports that 60.1% of US residents over the age of 65 years have been vaccinated with at least one shot of Covid vaccine as of yesterday. It also reports that the three vaccine manufacturers, Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Johnson and Johnson, have delivered a total over 123 million doses of the vaccines since they were given emergency approval.
This number of shots will be more than enough to fulfill Joe Biden’s original goal of administering 100 million shots in his first 100 days. His goal required 120 million doses available or already used since 19.9 million jabs somehow took place before Biden’s Inauguration Day.
The amounts were bolstered by 3.3 million delivered of the recently approved J&J vaccine. The CDC reports 308 thousand of those shots have already been used.
There is a long way to go, but we seem to have the vaccines in place or coming in the next three months to send Covid packing.
One thing experts agree on, though, is that the available vaccines have outperformed expectations — even when it comes to what are known as the “variants of concern.”
“This virus is not invincible, and despite all these variants, the vaccines are working great,” said Jeremy Kamil, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport. “That is really outstanding and people should be celebrating that.”
Vaccinations at Dollar General Stores?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in talks with Dollar General, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday.
Dollar General does not have pharmacies, but it has more than 16,000 locations. That’s about three times the number of locations as Walmart and more than half as many as CVS and Walgreens, all three of which are delivering COVID-19 vaccines at some of their pharmacy locations.
COVID.CDC.GOV/… COVID-19 VACCINATIONS IN US Day Delivered Total Shots 1st Shot % of Pop 2nd Shot % of Pop 3/8 Mon 123,232,775 93,692,598 +1,602,746
61,027,125 18.4% +1,021,894
32,079,368 9.7% 3/7 Sun 116,378,615 92,089,852 +1,738,102
60,005,231 18.1% +1,131,521
31,285,186 9.4% 3/6 Sat 116,363,405 90,351,750 +2,439,427
58,873,710 17.7% +1,514,861
30,686,881 9.2% 3/5 Fri 116,355,405 87,912,323 +2,904,229
57,358,849 17.3% +1,811,152
29,776,160 9.0% 3/4 Thu 114,133,115 85,008,094
+2,435,246
55,547,697 16.7%
+1,512,027
28,701,201 8.6% 3/3 Wed 109,905,530 82,572,848
+2,032,374
54,035,670 16.3%
+1,180,091
27,795,980 8.4% 3/2 Tue 107,028,890 80,540,474
+1,908,873
52,855,579 15.9%
+1,100,132
26,957,804 8.1% 3/1 Mon 102,353,940 78,631,601
+1,731,614
51,755,447 15.6%
+1,022,450
26,162,122 7.9% 2/28 Sun 96,402,490 76,899,987
+1,663,984
25,466,405 7.7% 2/27 Sat 96,402,490
75,236,003
+2,429,823
2/26 Fri 96,402,290 72,806,180
+2,352,116
48,435,536 14.6%
+1,251,337
23,698,627 7.1% 2/25 94,300,910 70,454,064 47,184,199 14.2% 22,613,359 6.8% 2/24 91,673,010 68,274,117 46,074,392 13.9% 21,555,117 6.5% 2/23 88,669,035 66,464,947 45,237,143 13.6% 20,607,261 6.2% 2/22 82,114,370 65,032,083 44,544,969 13.4% 2/21 75,205,940 64,177,474 44,138,118 19,438,495 2/20 75,204,965 63,090,634 43,628,092
18,865,319
1/19 pre-Biden 19,908,456 (The CDC has a 72 hour window for reporting vaccine numbers)
