A 16-year-old receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from a nurse at the UCI Health Family Health Center in Anaheim, California on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
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The United States reports an average of 2.7 million Covid-19 vaccinations per day over the past week. This is according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a high daily rate but below the highs two weeks ago.
At the same time, the rate of new coronavirus infections every day is falling in most countries.
US vaccine shots administered
After 2.2 million doses reported on Wednesday, the 7-day average of daily reported vaccinations – which offset the fluctuations in data on the day of the week – is 2.7 million.
Daily reported vaccinations peaked on April 13, averaging 3.4 million.
The slowdown comes from states being able to re-administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as U.S. health officials lifted a hiatus in its use. The Food and Drug Administration and CDC temporarily urged states to end the use of the single-dose vaccine “out of caution” on April 13 after reports of rare blood clots were published.
The loss of the third vaccination option for a period of time could partly explain the country’s declining vaccination rate, as J&J was used for an average of 425,000 reported shots per day in mid-April. However, if you just take the Pfizer and Moderna shots into account, the downward trend remains. The combination of these two vaccines peaked on April 16, averaging 3 million reported daily shots, and has since declined by 12%.
It may take days for reuse of J&J recordings to appear in CDC reports.
US percentage of the vaccinated population
More than 40% of Americans have received at least one shot and three in ten are fully vaccinated, CDC data shows.
Of those over 65, 82% are at least partially vaccinated and 68% are fully vaccinated.
US Covid cases
The U.S. reports an average of 52,500 new cases per day over the past seven days, according to Johns Hopkins University. In 34 states and the District of Columbia, daily case numbers have dropped 5% or more in the past week, including Michigan, which had the country’s worst outbreak.
Although cases have been falling recently, the recent statewide trend is being masked by an adjustment in coverage from the state of New Jersey. State officials said they had removed about 10,000 duplicate cases, according to Hopkins and local media reports. Though these have added to the state’s nearly 1 million total at various points over the course of the pandemic, the clearing of cases is reported for April 26th. This can be adjusted in the future.
US Covid deaths
The 7-day average of daily deaths in the US from Covid is 682, according to Hopkins data on Wednesday. Nearly 575,000 deaths have been reported from the virus since the pandemic began.
