AZN - U.S. inoculates 75% of adults with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
According to the White House, three-quarters of adults in the U.S. have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday - Bloomberg. White House COVID-19 data director Cyrus Shahpar on Tuesday tweeted that the U.S. "just hit 75% of adults with at least one dose!" The CDC reported that 193,798,688 of adults have had at least one shot, while 165,947,460 people, or 64.3% of the adult population, are fully vaccinated. The tally includes vaccines from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) - BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) as well as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ). The rate of vaccinations has picked up in recent weeks as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads throughout the country. President Joe Biden has planned a speech Thursday to outline a “six-pronged strategy” to get the pandemic under control, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. The U.S. reached the 75% threshold about a month after hitting 70% in
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U.S. inoculates 75% of adults with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine