The US administers 90.35 million doses of COVID-19: CDC vaccines

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ARCHIVE PHOTO: Syringes are on a table where vaccines against coronavirus disease are being administered during a two-day COVID-19 vaccination clinic inside the JBS Greeley Beef factory in Greeley, Colorado, USA, March 5, 2021. Alex McIntyre / The Greeley Tribune / Pool

(Reuters) – The United States administered 90,351,750 doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday morning and distributed 116,363,405 doses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Vaccine doses are for Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines starting at 9 am ET (1400 GMT) on Sunday, the agency said.

According to the count released on March 6, the agency administered 87,912,323 doses of the vaccines and distributed 116,355,405 doses.

The agency said 58,873,710 people received one or more doses, while 30,686,881 people received the second dose on Sunday.

A total of 7,389,102 doses of vaccine were administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.

Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker

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