U.S. administers 245.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC

Reuters

Published May 03, 2021 02:37AM ET

(Reuters) - The United States has administered 245,591,469 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Sunday.

A total of 243,463,471 vaccine doses had been administered by May 1, the CDC said.

The agency said 147,047,012 people had received at least one dose while 104,774,652 people were fully vaccinated as of Sunday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) Inc and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) Inc/BioNTech SE as well as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)'s one-shot vaccine as of 6:00 a.m. ET on Sunday.