COVID-19: US vaccinates 10 million people

More than 10 million people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, official data showed Wednesday, even as the country remains behind its immunization targets.

Of 29,380,125 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines sent to states, 10,278,462 have been administered as first doses, according to the CDC’s tracker.

That is around 3.1 percent of the total population of roughly 330 million people — though vaccines are not yet available to children.

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