US administers more than 328 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine – CDC

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Large vaccination site is shown as people with pre-existing health conditions gain access to vaccination during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Inglewood, California, United States on March 15, 2021 . REUTERS / Mike Blake

July 1 (Reuters) – The United States had administered 328,152,304 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country by Thursday morning and distributed 382,283,990 doses, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Those numbers are up from the 326,521,526 doses of vaccine that the CDC said had taken up arms as of June 30 out of 381,949,830 doses delivered.

The agency said 181,339,416 people had received at least one dose while 155,884,601 people had been fully vaccinated as of Thursday.

The CDC’s tally includes the two-dose vaccines from Moderna (MRNA.O) and Pfizer / BioNTech (PFE.N), as well as the single-shot vaccine from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) starting at 6:00 a.m. ET thursday.

Reporting by Amruta Khandekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi

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