Biden Doubles Vaccination Goal and It Looks Achievable
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Having reached 100 million vaccinations in just 59 days in office, Joe Biden is now calling for 200 million vaccinations in his first 100 days, which will be April 30.
The Center for Disease Control reports 136.7 million total vaccinations for US residents for yesterday, so reaching the goal will require about 83.3 million vaccinations in the 36 remaining days. (About 20 million vaccinations happened before Biden’s inauguration.) We are currently averaging about 2.5 million vaccinations per day and Biden’s goal will require 2.3 million a day.
The rollout of Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine has been slower than expected. The company had forecast delivery of 20 million doses by March 31. The CDC reports only 4.9 million delivered as of yesterday.
While distribution of Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine hit an initial snag, the Biden Administration announced on Friday that the company will deliver 11 million doses of the vaccine next week.
Looking at the delivery of vaccine doses rather than actual vaccinations, the White House is saying 27 million vaccine doses from J&J, Pfizer, and Moderna should be delivered next week. Added to the 177.5 million that have already been delivered that brings us to about 204.5 million doses. Today and tomorrow’s deliveries may well add 5.5 million bringing us to 210 million doses. (Assuming no huge amounts of the vaccines have been lost or gone to waste.) The 220 million shots needed to fulfill Biden’s goal should be delivered before April 8. It could be sooner in J&J really ramps it up.
As for vaccinations already made, The CDC reports nearly 90 million have received at least one shot or 27% of the total US population. Considering only adults old enough to get the sticks, the number is 34.6%. More than 71% of Americans over the age of 65 have received one or more doses.
For the last couple of weeks, almost 1% of the US adult population has been receiving vaccine stabs daily.
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| Day |
|
Delivered | Total Shots | 1st Shot % of Pop | 2nd Shot % of Pop |
| 3/25 | Thu | 177,501,775 |
136,684,688
+3,379,393 |
89,559,225 27%
89,559,225 |
48,695,172 14.7% |
| 3/24 | Wed | 173,525,335 |
133,305,295
+2,831,442 |
87,343,622 26.3%
+1,871,456 |
47,350,657 14.3% |
| 3/23 | Tue | 169,223,125 |
130,473,853
+2,256,824 |
85,472,166 25.7%
+1,541,671 |
46,365,515 14% |
| 3/22 | Mon | 164,300,795 |
128,217,029
+1,707,293 |
83,930,495 25.3%
+1,158,079 |
45,533,962 13.7% |
| 3/21 | Sun | 156,734,555 |
126,509,736
+2,028,324 |
82,772,416 24.9%
+1,356,647 |
44,848,494 13.5% |
| 3/20 | Sat | 156,734,555 |
124,481,412
+3,039,915 |
81,415,769 24.5%
+2,048,544 |
44,141,228 13.3% |
| 3/19 | Fri | 156,734,555 |
121,441,497
+3,127,679 |
79,367,225 23.9%
+2,137,164 |
43,036,818 13% |
| 3/18 | Thu | 154,199,235 |
118,313,818
+2,583,810 |
77,230,061 23.3%
+1,734,345 |
41,934,629 12.6% |
| 3/17 | Wed | 151,108,445 |
115,730,008
+2,692,381 |
75,495,716 22.7%
+1,825,760 |
40,981,464 12.3% |
| 3/16 | Tue | 147,590,615 |
113,037,627
+2,299,771
|
73,669,956 22.2%
+1,534,340 |
39,989,196 12% |
| 3/15 | Mon | 142,918,525 |
110,737,856
+1,655,996 |
72,135,616 21.7%
+1,081,171 |
38,992,039 11.8% |
| 3/14 | Sun | 135,847,835 |
109,081,860
+2,021,586 |
71,054,445 21.4%
+1,410,460 |
38,286,605 11.5% |
| 3/13 | Sat | 135,847,835 |
107,060,274
+1,356,773 |
69,643,985 21.0%
+759,974 |
37,411,776 11.3% |
| 3/12 | Fri | 135,846,665 |
105,703,501
+4,575,496 |
68,884,011 20.7%
+2,918,706 |
36,883,178 11.1% |
| 3/11 | Thu | 133,337,525 |
101,128,005 +2,924,112 |
65,965,305 19.9% +1,893,631 |
35,000,159 10.5% |
| 3/10 | Wed | 131,131,470 |
98,203,893 +2,482,603 |
64,071,674 19.3% +1,620,524 |
33,863,127 10.2% |
| 3/9 | Tue | 127,869,155 |
95,721,290 +2,028,692 |
62,451,150 18.8% +1,424,025 |
32,904,161 9.9% |
| 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 |
50,732,997 15.3%
+960,817
|
25,466,405 7.7% |
| 2/27 |
|
J&J vaccine |
authorized |
||
|
1/19
1/18 1/14 |
|
pre-Biden
Moderna Pfizer/Bio |
20,110,911
authorized authorized |
covid.cdc.gov/… |
(The CDC has a 72 hour window for reporting vaccine numbers)
