The United States’ vaccination efforts got a boost, thanks to increased supply.
The Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which reached all-time single-day highs in recent weeks, has been boosted by drastically increased production from the three approved vaccine manufacturers, an NBC News analysis of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, data shows.
As pharmaceuticals pump out more vials, the federal government doles out some of those doses directly to states, various pharmacy programs, and even the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A look at just the state distribution data shows the ramp up from about 4 million first doses allocated in an average week in January, to this week, when distributed first doses numbered more than 8 million.
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