Fifty Percent Of Americans Vaccinated Against COVID-19 – White House

• Biden has been pressing hard for Americans to get vaccinated ever since he took office in January

Half of the US population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the White House said Friday, as inoculations rise in response to the surging Delta variant of the novel coronavirus.

“50% of Americans (all ages) are now fully vaccinated. Keep going!,” Cyrus Shahpar, White House COVID-19 data director, said in a tweet.

That means more than 165 million people have received either the two-dose Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or the one-and-done Johnson & Johnson shot.

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The threshold of half of all adult Americans fully vaccinated was reached in late May.

Shahpar said the seven-day average of newly vaccinated people is up 11 percent from last week and up 44 per cent over the past two weeks.

For four straight weeks, the average number of people getting vaccinated each day has risen, White House COVID coordinator Jeff Zients said Thursday.

The United States is the nation hardest hit by the pandemic with 615,000 COVID-19 deaths.

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