# CDC says 1 million vaccinations given in 10 days. Is that possible? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [December 24, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-says-1-million-vaccinations-given-in-10-days-is-that-possible/928816 "2020-12-24T13:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 68
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-says-1-million-vaccinations-given-in-10-days-is-that-possible/928816/68 "2021-01-12T17:38:17Z")
You’ve done a lot more assumption guidelines than this simple counter, but this counter measures the rate of vaccinations per day to get how long it would take to get the country to 70% vaccinated. When I originally posted it in the breaking news thread on Jan 8, the time to herd was 1,195 days. Today, 4 days later, the time to herd is 711 days. So the rate of daily vaccinations is definitely increasing. > [@Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/73): > > There’s a website called [Time to Herd](https://timetoherd.com/). It does a simple calculation of using how many vaccines given a day to calculate how long it would take at that rate to get to 70% of the population vaccinated. IF (big IF), herd immunity is reached at 70%, and the current rate of vaccinations hold constant, the website gives the number of days until herd immunity. The US will reach herd immunity by that calculation in 1,195 days. Israel will reach herd immunity in 101 days. The UK will take 1,928 days… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-says-1-million-vaccinations-given-in-10-days-is-that-possible/928816)._