Let’s continue working to get more eligible vaccinated!” Shahpar tweeted. 7-day average of newly vaccinated highest since July 4. “Today we hit 70% of adults w/ at least one dose! +468K doses reported administered, incl.
This is the goal the Biden administration originally set for July 4, so it’s roughly a month behind that deadline. The US by Monday had vaccinated 70% of adults with at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the White House’s Covid-19 data director, Cyrus Shahpar, said on Twitter. Vaccination milestone reached – about a month late More than 99.99% of people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death, according to the latest data from the CDC.Ī woman arrives at a treatment tent outside the emergency department at Palm Bay Hospital in Brevard County, Florida, on July 29, 2021. And that’s what it’s going to take to get us out of this pandemic,” he said. Americans are seeing the risk and impact of being unvaccinated and responding with action. “This increase in vaccination rates in states that have been lagging is a positive trend. Zients said this increase means people are understanding the risks of going unvaccinated. “Louisiana has seen a 302% increase in the average number of newly vaccinated per day, Mississippi 250%, Alabama 215%, and Arkansas 206%,” Zients said. “The eight states with the highest current case rates have seen an average increase of 171% in the number of people newly vaccinated, each day over the past three weeks,” he said. Unvaccinated Covid-19 patients are filling up hospitals, putting the care of others at risk, doctors sayĪnd according to Zients, vaccination rates have more than doubled in the states with the highest case rates. LOS ANGELES - Registered Nurse Elle Lauron and another caregiver care for a Covid-19 patient in the improvised COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills neighborhood on Jin Los Angeles, California. “That’s what desperately needs to happen if we are going to get this Delta variant put back in its place, because right now it is having a pretty big party in the middle of the country.” Vaccination rates rising with spread of Delta variantĪ “silver lining” of the surge in Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant is that more Americans appear to be at the tipping point of understanding the importance of Covid-19 vaccinations, Collins said Sunday on CNN.
“And we need them to do their part, roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated. “There are still about 90 million eligible Americans who are unvaccinated,” Zients said. Hospitals are once again filling up with patients as the virus tears through the unvaccinated population. The increase comes as the Delta variant spreads and the percentage of fully vaccinated Americans hovers around 49.7%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. In the past two weeks, daily case rates have gone up fourfold, according to Dr. “In fact, seven states with the lowest vaccination rates represent just about 8- 1/2% of the US population, but account for more than 17% of cases, and one in three cases nationwide occurred in Florida and Texas, this past week,” Zients said. The cases are mainly in areas where vaccination rates remain low, Zients said at a briefing Monday. One-third of all US Covid-19 cases reported in the past week were in just two states – Florida and Texas – according to White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients.
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