The United States (US) has administered 368 863 734 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 440 028 085 doses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Those figures are up from 367 911 870 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by August 28 out of 439 428 235 doses delivered.
The agency said 204 435 968 people had received at least one dose while 173 520 211 people were fully vaccinated as of 6 am ET on Sunday.
The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine.
“I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea,” Fauci told CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis” vaccinations.
Currently, children under 12 are not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
But Fauci, in a separate interview on ABC’s “This Week” program, said there should be enough data by early October for the US Food and Drug Administration to consider whether the shot is safe for children under that age.
