WASHINGTON - More than 10 million people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, official data showed Wednesday, even as the country remains behind its immunization targets.
The US has vaccinated more people than any other Western country, but rollout has fallen far behind goals set by authorities, who had hoped to reach 20 million people by the end of December. This marks a break from the previous plan in which second doses were held back for those people who had received their first, to ensure that there is no delay."States have been blamed for being initially overly-prescriptive in how they distributed their supply, which led to doses lying unused in freezers or even being thrown away because they expired," Andrea Polonijo, a public health expert at the University of California, Riverside told AFP.
Cities are also preparing mass vaccination sites -- California, which is facing the worst of the US outbreak, for example has designated Disneyland as such a site.
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