By More than four million people in the United States received a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday.
This was the nation’s highest one-day total since the shots began rolling out in December, amid a rising caseload and increase in hospitalizations, The Washington Post reported.
The newspaper quoted Andy Slavitt, the White House’s senior adviser for COVID-19 response, as saying an average of 3.1 million shots were administered each day over the past seven days, and nearly 1 in 4 adults are now fully vaccinated.
The Biden administration had said the United States will have enough coronavirus vaccine doses despite problems at a Baltimore manufacturing facility that will now be taken over by parent company Johnson & Johnson.
More than 106 million people have received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose in the country.
Experts, however, disagree on whether the United States is on the cusp of a “fourth wave” of infections or seeing the last gasps of the 14-month crisis.
