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The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States is an ongoing mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine on December 10, 2020, [7] and mass vaccinations began four days later.
A growing number of people are showing up to hospital emergency rooms with COVID-19, especially people 65 years old and over. COVID-19 hospitalizations, vaccine rates and variants.
Percent of people of all ages who received all doses prescribed by the initial COVID-19 vaccination protocol. Two of the three COVID-19 vaccines used in the U.S. require two shots to be fully vaccinated. The other vaccine requires only one shot. Booster doses are recommended too. [2] [3] See Commons source for date of last upload.
Later, Japan started to use the vaccine for people aged 40 or over to mitigate the surge of the Delta variant in August. [18] Finland ceased use of the vaccine as the last batch expired on 30 November 2021. Until then it was only offered for those aged 65 or more due to extremely rare coagulation disorders among younger recipients of the vaccine.
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas . [ 3 ]
Despite COVID-19 vaccines now widely available, vaccination rates are still lower than where they need to be.
This template is used to provide data for COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, and Deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. References [ edit ]
Mar. 25—Randy McMullen served in the U.S. Air Force for 18 years, but when he tried to get a COVID-19 vaccine at the VA earlier this month, he was refused — because he made too much money.