Nearly 40 Million Americans Have Received a New COVID Vaccine: CDC

Most of the recipients are adults, survey data indicate.

A woman receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in a file photograph. Johanna Geron/Reuters

Nearly 40 million Americans, most of them adults, have received one of the new COVID-19 vaccines, according to survey information from the U.S. government.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this week that about 14 percent of American adults and 5 percent of American children have received one of the shots, which were introduced with scant data in the fall.