The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in the United States reached record highs with four million doses administered on Friday 2 April alone, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.
“Wow, a record day !! 4.08 million doses administered yesterday out of the total,” the director of data on Covid-19 at the White House wrote on Twitter. Cyrus Shahpar.
In the United States, more citizens have received at least one dose of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic spread. 158 million doses have been administered so far with an average of 2.99 million doses per day in the past week.
Contagions and deaths in the United States
Nonetheless, weekly infections reached their highest point since the end of February according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg: 68 thousand more positives on Friday. On the other hand, daily deaths are at the lowest level since the end of October. On the same day on Friday, 949 deaths were recorded after two days with over a thousand deaths.
According to the immunologist Anthony Faucionce 70-85% of the population is vaccinated, the United States will be able to return to normal.
Vaccinations around the world
Worldwide, according to Bloomberg data, more than 628 million doses have been administered in 150 countries with a daily rate of 16.3 million doses – at this rate, it will take years to achieve global herd immunity.
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