The United States is administering an average of 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines per day, according to an analysis of the The New York Times.
The average is over a month ago, when the daily average was around 1.3 million doses, according to the times.
The increase in pace means that Biden’s administration is on track to achieve its goal of delivering 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the first 100 days of President biden
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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 54 million people received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 27 million received two doses.
A total of 82,572,848 doses have been administered to date, according to CDC data. Forty-two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 40 million doses of the Modern vaccine were administered.
The fast pace comes as the Biden government makes joint efforts to increase vaccinations amid initial logistical hurdles.
Biden said Tuesday that the United States will have enough vaccine supplies to vaccinate all American adults by the end of May, which has also been a short period of time since its initial July estimate.
The president also announced a partnership by which Merck would help manufacture the Johnson & Johnson single-dose coronavirus vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration authorized on Saturday.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency created several mass vaccination sites in California, Texas and New York, with more scheduled to open soon.
The pace comes as the U.S. has reported 28,759,980 coronavirus infections since the pandemic began a year ago, according to Johns Hopkins University data. More than 518,000 died.