By the end of today 2.6 million American children ages 5 to 11 will have gotten their first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, meaning 10% of that age-group will have started the two-dose series in the first 10 days the vaccines have been available.White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said today that it took 50 days to reach 10% of the adult population with vaccines earlier this year.
Despite continued vaccinated efforts, however, new COVID-19 cases are continuing to tick upward.Over the past 2 weeks, 21 states have seen at least a 10% uptick in daily cases, ABC News reports.Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the new 7-day average of cases was 83,671 per