People queue for a Covid-19 vaccine at an outdoor pedestrian vaccination site in Franklin Park in Washington, DC, on November 29, 2021.
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Vaccination for Covid spiked this weekend as a growing number of states confirmed their first cases of the highly mutated omicron variant.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The data shows that nearly 2.2 million firearms were reported to the agency during the 24-hour period ending Thursday, the largest single-day total since May.
White House Covid-19 data director Cyrus Shahpar wrote in a tweet Thursday, nearly half of which were booster doses, and nearly a third were the initial dose, or those who received the shots. Firstly. About 4.8 million photos were reported Monday, but that number represents data from a handful of days over the long Thanksgiving weekend, according to the CDC..
Walgreens The company said in an emailed statement Friday it has shown increased demand for both vaccinations and testing over the past week. On Saturday, the pharmacy chain is expected to roll out weekly with about 1 million new appointments across its stores. About 20% of appointments were available nationally in the past week, it said.
U.S. health officials have promoted vaccines through a year-long outreach campaign and mandated vaccinations for some workers in recent months. On Monday, CDC reinforce its recommendation for Covid booster shots, telling all adults they “should” get an extra dose amid growing concern about the newly identified omicron variant.
CDC removed booster shots for all adults in early November, but the agency is currently making its strongest recommendation that adults “should” get an additional six months after the first. Pfizer or Moderna or two months after their first time with Johnson & Johnson.
Vaccination rates have increased in recent times, but at a slower rate. Nearly 60% of Americans are fully immunized, according to CDC data as of Thursday. It’s been almost four months, though, since that number hit the 50% mark in early August. It took the whole country just over two months to increase from 40% to 50% and less than a month to increase from 30% to 40%.
About 70% of Americans have received at least one shot, and 21% of fully immunized Americans have received a booster shot.
Immunizations peaked at around 3.4 million per day, on a seven-day average, in April after the first shots became available and another shot was seen. collides with the beginning of the delta . variant, averaging nearly 1 million injections per day during the last months of summer. Vaccination shots are on the rise again around Thanksgiving and crossed the 1.5 million average daily injections mark by mid-November, many of which have already passed. booster dose.
The omicron variation was detected in five states of the United States of America since Thursday night. The delta strain remains the dominant variant in the country, accounting for more than 99% of all new cases and pushing The number of hospital admissions of Covid is once again higher.
The country is far from the peak of the delta wave in early September, when more than 100,000 patients were hospitalized with the virus. There are still about 57,000 Americans hospitalized with Covid, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ seven-day average of data through Thursday, up 10% from last week and 22% from a near low. most recent of the country on November 10.
– By CNBC Spencer Kimball and Melissa Repko contributed to this report.
