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About 32.8 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the US, new CDC data shows
From CNN’s Deidre McPhillips
People receive Covid-19 vaccines at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Monday. Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
About 32.8 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States, according to data published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported that at least 32,780,860 total doses have been administered, about 62% of the 52,657,675 doses distributed.
That’s about 558,000 more administered doses reported since yesterday, for a seven-day average of about 1.3 million doses per day.
About 8% of the US population – more than 26.4 million people – have now received at least one dose of the vaccine and about 6 million people have been fully vaccinated, CDC data shows.
Alexandra Jaffe February 02, 2021 - 1:05 PM
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Kamala Harris has spent her first two weeks in office working with the president on coronavirus relief, consulting with the head of the World Health Organization and talking with the prime minister of Canada.
Itâs her interview with a local news station in West Virginia, though, thatâs getting more attention â and not in a good way.
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate whose support is critical to the success of President Joe Bidenâs agenda in Congress, didnât take kindly to the vice-presidentâs effort to put public pressure on him in his home state by urging passage of a $1.9 trillion virus relief package, especially when he had no warning it was coming.
InvestigateWest: Washington state plan would slash emissions
Peter Fairley
InvestigateWest
After more than a decade of the supposedly eco-friendly Pacific Northwest and British Columbia falling short on pledges to fight climate change, a new blueprint emerged last month for how to eliminate all but a sliver of fossil-fuel emissions.
The 428-page plan by Washington state outlines how to make a wholesale shift to renewable energy and meet some of the most ambitious climate-protection goals on the planet. It calls for building a regional network of solar and wind energy stations and transmission lines allowing sharing of power across the western U.S. and Canada.