White House officials on Monday said that about 80 percent of U.S. adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, and about 70 percent of adults are fully vaccinated.
Jeff Zients, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 response coordinator, said during a briefing that the statistical benchmark suggests the United States is making progress on the pandemic. Previously, Zients and other Biden administration officials have suggested that mandates and vaccine passport systems are the reason why vaccination numbers have increased.
