70% of the population of eight US states have already received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, reveals the CDC

Based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) point out that in the United States 162. millions of people have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and more than 129 millions are fully immunized.

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Eight US states have administered a dose of the COVID-vaccine. 19 to at least the 70% of its population , according to data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).

Those states are Rhode Island, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Vermont.

Follow those areas New York, who has administered at least one dose to 51. 6% of its population; Maryland, at 70 .6%; New Mexico, at 63. 8%; and the District of Columbia, at 49%.

Among the states that are slower in the immunization campaign are Wyoming, Idaho, Alabama, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee.

CDC data indicate that in the country as a whole 162. 4 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine (48. 9% of the population) and that more than 100 millions are fully immunized (38. 9%).

The President of the United States United, Joe Biden , has set the goal of reaching the 70% of the adults with at least a dose received before the celebration of July 4, the country’s Independence Day.

As the vaccination progresses, daily infections have been decreasing and for the first time in eleven months the weekly daily average of new cases in the US was less than 30, 000 infections, a figure that does not It looked since June of last year.

Even so, The United States continues to be the country most affected by the pandemic with 33. 1 million cases detected and more of 589,000 deceased, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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