Nearly 34 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States, according to data published on Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported that 33,878,254 total doses were administered – about 61% of the 55,943,800 doses distributed. That is about 1.1 million administered doses reported since yesterday.
The rate of vaccinations has steadily increased over time.
As of December 30, the seven-day average was about 255,000 shots a day.
That number jumped to 359,000 on January 6; 710,000 on January 13; 892,000 on January 20; 1.16 million on January 27; and now 1.32 million on February 3.
At the current rate, every adult in the United States could be fully vaccinated in about a year.
Assuming that 75% of US adults must be fully vaccinated to obtain collective immunity, the US can reach this limit around Halloween.
Just over 8% of the United States’ population – more than 27 million people – has already received at least one dose of the vaccine and about 6.4 million people have been fully vaccinated, CDC data show.
Note on the data: States have 72 hours to report vaccine data, so data published by the CDC may be delayed – and may not necessarily mean that all doses were administered on the reported day.