Posted on 02/01/21
| News Source: The Hill
As of Monday, more Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the disease, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.
Bloomberg’s data on vaccinations shows that 26.5 million Americans have received one or more doses of the vaccine, surpassing the total of almost 26.3 million coronavirus cases that Johns Hopkins University has recorded.
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The Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker has determined the U.S. is vaccinating people at a higher rate than any other country, with about 1.34 million shots given per day.
Since the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first available in the U.S. last month, followed by the Moderna vaccine, almost 7.8 percent of Americans have received one or more doses of a vaccine and 1.8 percent, or 5.82 million, have received the necessary two doses.
According to Bloomberg, three other nations reached the milestone of having more vaccinations than confirmed cases before the U.S.: Israel, the U.K. and the United Arab Emirates, though the number of actual ca as many remain unidentified. Read more at The Hill