Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News

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The US is up to about 1M vaccines administered so far and expects another 4.67M to be distributed next week.

The U.S. plans to ship 4.67 million Covid-19 vaccine doses next week, putting the government on track to send out 20 million shots by year-end, according to the federal official in charge of the distribution effort
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Already, 15.5 million doses have been allocated to states, territories and a handful of cities, said Perna. About 1 million doses have been administered since the U.S. vaccination campaign started last week, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , reported Bloomberg .

I’m not entirely understanding what these numbers mean. There are 15.5M doses allocated, 4.67M doses distributed next week and 1M doses administered.

Since the 4.67M doses puts them on track to have 20M doses distributed by year end and next week is year end, it sounds like the 15.5M doses that were allocated were also distributed, but that’s not clear from the article. If 15.5M doses are already distributed, the 1M administered rate seems really low.