Hospitalizations from COVID have dropped for 25 days in a row as CDC announces 30.2m people have received at least one vaccine shot and 8.3m Americans have received two doses
Hospitalizations from COVID-19 are falling across the United States and have now decreased daily for 25 days in a row as the vaccine rollout continues.
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have now received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, amounting to 2.5 percent of the population.
At least one dose of a vaccine has been administered to 30,250,964 million people, which equals to 9.1 percent of the population.
The CDC reports that as of Saturday morning, 39,037,964 doses have been administered and 59,304,600 doses delivered across the country.
On Saturday, the COVID Tracking Project reported that there were 84,233 Americans hospitalized with COVID-19.
Hospitalizations from COVID-19 have now decreased daily for 25 days in a row, pictured
All states have now administered at least 9,000 doses per 100,000 of population
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have now received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Pictured, a vaccination in Pittsburgh
This was the third day in a row that the number hospitalized remained below 90,000.
Before this, there had been more than 90,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized since November 27.
According to Tracking Project data, the U.S. reported 113,927 new infections on Saturday and 2,983 new fatalities. Deaths continue to fall after a steep spike at the start of the year.
Nationwide, there have been more than 26.8million Americans infected with coronavirus and 461,242 deaths.
On Saturday, the country’s seven-day average for cases dropped by 5,000 from 125,431 to 120,446.
The seven-day average for deaths remained the same at 3,003 a day.
The number of people hospitalized has now dropped every day since January 14.
In the last three months of 2020, the number hospitalized had only fallen on 14 days.
In the last eight days, the number hospitalized has fallen daily by 1,797 on average, compared to 981 on average throughout January.
In December, the number hospitalized had been increasing daily at an average of 948 patients, and at an average of 1,621 patients throughout November.
This week also marked the second in a row that no states have reported a record number of weekly COVID-19 cases.
Virginia was the last to report its highest weekly cases on January 17, and New York the week before that on January 10.
Thirty-six states recorded their highest weekly cases in November and December 2020.
Only Hawaii has not seen an increase in cases since the summer and last reported its highest weekly cases on August 16.
According to Tracking Project data, the U.S. reported 113,927 new infections on Saturday and 2,983 new fatalities. Deaths continue to fall after a steep spike at the start of the year
This week also marked the second in a row that no states have reported a record number of weekly COVID-19 cases, as pictured in the graph from the COVID Tracking Project
According to the CDC, at least 20,598,212 of the doses administered in the U.S. so fars were from Pfizer-BioNTech, while another 18,336,515 doses were of the Moderna vaccine.
The federal data reports that the majority of states have now received between 10,000 and 20,000 doses of a vaccine per 100,000 of state population.
Most states have also administered both doses to more than 2,000 people out of every 100,000.
Only California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Wisconsin Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia have administered less than this.
A total of 4,628,962 doses of a vaccine have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
West Virginia has fully vaccinated the most people with 5.6 percent of its population having received two doses.
Alaksa has now received the most doses from the federal government per 100k people
According to the CDC, at least 20,598,212 of the doses administered in the U.S. so fars were from Pfizer-BioNTech, while another 18,336,515 doses were of the Moderna vaccine
Alaska is next with 4.9 percent, followed by North Dakota and South Dakota with 4.6 percent and 4.4 percent respectively.
Mississippi has the smallest percentage fully vaccinated at 1.6 percent, followed by Alabama (1.7 percent) and Georgia (1.8 percent).
California, Nevada, and Idaho have also only fully vaccinated 1.8 percent of residents as of Saturday.
Alaska is also out on top with its number of people who have received at least one does at 14 percent of residents, followed by West Virginia at 12 percent.
Iowa is the lowest at 7.1 percent.
At least seven percent of residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine in every state.
According to the CDC data, North Dakota is miles ahead in administering its supply to residents with 92 percent of delivered shots administered as of Saturday.
West Virginia, Utah, and New Mexico have also administered more than 80 percent of the supply.
Alaska has rolled out the shots at a much slower pace with only 56 percent of delivered shots administered.
Massachusetts, California, Kana, Mississippi, Alabama, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania also have less than 60 percent of their received supply administered to residents.
On Friday, it was revealed that the coronavirus pandemic will drag on for another seven years at the current rate of vaccinations worldwide.
It will take that long to reach Dr Anthony Fauci's estimate for the herd immunity threshold of 75 percent of people inoculated globally, according to Bloomberg's vaccination calculator.
More than 4.5 million vaccines are being administered a day, for a total of 119.8 million shots given worldwide.
Despite ranking sixth in the world for the pace of its vaccinations, the US is predicted to reach herd immunity just in time for New Year's 2022.
But all of this depends on whether the vaccines are effective against variants like those that emerged in South Africa and Brazil, which appear to dull the potency of shots.
Nine vaccines are authorized worldwide, and at least two variants - those that emerged in South Africa and Brazil - might evade them.
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