Nearly 55 Percent of U.S. Seniors Have Gotten at Least First COVID-19 Shot

The White House announced over the weekend that nearly 55 percent of Americans 65 or older have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, reports the New York Post . "Altogether, we've administered more than 82 million shots — more than any country in the world," declared Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to President Biden's coronavirus response team. He added that two new mass vaccination sites run by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will open soon, for a national total of 18. "The Atlanta Falcons Stadium in Georgia and the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will turn into FEMA-supported community vaccination sites with the capacity to deliver 6,000 shots per day each," Slavitt said. "Both of these sites sit in neighborhoods hit hard by the pandemic and are well known in the community." Slavitt concluded that the federal government has opened or expanded over 450 community vaccination sites in an effort to combat the pandemic.