The United States set the world record for the highest number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered in a single day on Friday, according to the White House.
In a tweet, Cyrus Shahpar, director of data for the White House’s COVID-19, announced that the U.S. administered nearly 3.4 million doses on Friday, surpassing the country’s previous daily high of 2.9 million on 12 December. March.
Just entered, a new daily record! + 3.38M reported doses administered, over the total yesterday. 7-day average now 2.62M / day.
– Cyrus Shahpar (@ cyrusshahpar46) March 26, 2021
The news of the record comes a day later President biden
Joe Biden’s Morning ReportThe Hill – Biden changes in obstruction GOP seems to squeeze Biden, Democrats on the border Sanders creates new headache for Biden in taxes MORE doubled its previous goal of administering 100 million vaccines during the first 100 days in office. On Thursday, Biden announced that he is increasing the number to 200 million vaccines.
“That’s right: 200 million shots in 100 days,” said Biden. “I know it is ambitious, double our original goal. But no other country in the world has come close, not even close to what we are doing. I believe we can do that.”
The US surpassed Biden’s initial goal of 100 million doses administered on March 12.
As of Friday, 48,695,172 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or 14.7 percent of the total United States population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The same statistics show that 89,559,225 people, or 27 percent, received at least one dose of the vaccine.