The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced this data on March 23.
Currently, an average of about 2.5 million Americans are vaccinated each day, up from 500,000 people in early January. Evercore ISI predicts that with an abundance of vaccines, the US can fully vaccinate 76 million people by January.
According to Morgan Stanley’s prediction, by mid-summer 2021, 75% of Americans aged 12 years and older could be vaccinated.
Moderna’s factory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took three months to produce the first 20 million doses of the vaccine in 2020. The facility now produces 40 million doses per month for the US, according to Juan Andres, director of engineering and
Johnson & Johnson is ramping up production and collaborating with other companies such as `rival` Merck to create more vaccines.
Along with expanding vaccine production and deployment, some states are expanding who can be vaccinated.
Vaccination programs across the US are gradually expanding to all adults under President Joe Biden’s goals.
The expansion of vaccination comes as US health officials warn of the risk of a fourth wave of epidemics and the rapid spread of new virus variants.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, America’s leading expert on infectious diseases, said on March 23: `The number of Covid-19 cases in the country is increasing. This is not good at all. The numbers should be
People line up in cars waiting to get vaccinated at a vaccination site in Austin, Texas.
Most businesses in the US have reopened and more than 10 states do not require masks.
On March 22, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that the White House Covid-19 Response Team is talking to governors and state officials about the infection.