Over the weekend, the United States administered 4 million COVID-19 vaccines on a single day, a new record that comes as the country has settled into administering an average of 3.1 million shots per day."As of today, nearly 1 in 3 Americans and over 40% of adults have at least 1 shot," said Andy Slavitt, the White House senior advisor for COVID response. "One in four adults are fully vaccinated.
But the worst thing we could do right now is mistake progress for victory."The country is witnessing a race that pits an aggressive vaccination strategy against increasingly transmissible variants of the virus, including B117, a variant first detected in the United Kingdom.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID Data Tracker