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75% Of U.S. Adults Have Received First Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine

FOXBOROUGH, MA - JANUARY 15: A police officer receives his COVID-19 vaccination at Gillette Staium's vaccination site on January 15, 2021 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. First responders and healthcare workers will be first to recieve the vaccinations at the stadium, starting with around 300 people per day, but advancing to thousands per day soon after. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that as of September 8, 75% of adults in the country now have taken at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

According to the data from the agency, 193,798,688 adults have received at least their first shot as of Tuesday morning, with 165,947,460 adults, or 64.3% of the entire adult population in the United States, are fully inoculated.

“Sunday-Tuesday just in: +1.51M doses reported administered over Saturday’s total, including 681K newly vaccinated and 105K additional doses. As usual, lower reporting over the holiday weekend. Just hit 75% of adults with at least one dose!” White House COVID-19 data director Cyrus Shahpar shared the CDC data in his tweet.

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