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More than 14 months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States hit a hopeful milestone on Tuesday: Half of the adult population is now fully vaccinated.
“This is a major milestone in our country’s vaccination efforts,” said Andy Slavitt, the White House’s senior Covid adviser, celebrating the news in a briefing with health officials.
The vaccine achievement comes as the US approaches 600,000 deaths from the pandemic, the highest death toll in the world.
According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the fifty per cent of adults milestone is equivalent to more than 129 million people.
Just under 74 per cent of the population over 65 years old is now fully vaccinated, and 47 per cent of the population over the age of 12 — those currently eligible for the vaccine, as younger children are not.
An impressive 61.6 per cent of adults have received at least one dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.
On 5 May the Biden administration annoucned a goal of vaccinating 70 per cent of US adults with at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and for 160 million adults to be fully vaccinated by 4 July.
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