The United States COVID-19 vaccination campaign began after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 10, 2020, with mass vaccination starting four days later; the Moderna vaccine followed on December 17, 2020, and the Janssen vaccine on February 27, 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention organized the campaign across both the Trump and Biden administrations, coordinating distribution to state and local health departments and expanding eligibility in phases from health workers and the elderly to the general public. By August 17, 2022, more than 262 million people, seventy-nine percent of the population, had received at least one dose, and more than 223 million people, sixty-seven percent, were fully vaccinated.
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Program Status Sponsoring BodyCenters for Disease Control and Prevention 1 Measured Results79 percent of the population received at least one dose and 67 percent were fully vaccinated 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindVaccination or Immunization Program 1 Connections
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The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States was a mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Organized by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Outcome: 79% received at least one dose; 67% fully vaccinated
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The United States COVID-19 vaccination campaign began after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 10, 2020, with mass vaccination starting four days later; the Moderna vaccine followed on December 17, 2020, and the Janssen vaccine on February 27, 2021.
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According to a July 2022 study published in JAMA Network Open, COVID-19 vaccination in the United States prevented an additional 235,000 deaths, an additional 1.6 million hospitalizations, and an additional 27 million infections from December 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021. == Vaccination program == Vaccines were distributed to states on a population basis, with the vaccine rollouts being administered by each individual U.S. state.
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