(Reuters) – The United States has administered 491,892,649 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 606,975,165 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Those figures are up from the 490,030,849 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by Thursday out of 602,523,315 doses delivered.
The agency said 240,775,382 people had received at least one dose while 203,479,206 people were fully vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday.
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine.
About 58.2 million people have received a booster dose of either Pfizer, Moderna or J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine. Booster doses from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson were authorized by the U.S. health regulator on Oct. 20
(Reporting by Bhanvi Satija in Bengaluru; Editing by Aditya Soni)
