More than one million people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield said Wednesday.
"The United States achieved an early but important milestone today -- jurisdictions have now reported that more than one million people have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine since administration began 10 days ago," said Redfield.
Three million doses were delivered last week across the United States, with the first authorized vaccine, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, administered on December 14.
"The US was still aiming for 100 million people immunized by the end of the first quarter of 2021, and another 100 million by the second quarter", said Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor of the government's Operation Warp Speed.
More than 320,000 people have succumbed to the virus in US, and it will likely be the leading cause of death in 2020 behind heart disease and cancer.
