In the 10 days following the official announcement from the FDA, the U.S. administered 8,848,828 vaccines, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Comparably, in the 10 days leading up to the announcement, 8,489,839 vaccines were administered across the nation, indicating that vaccinations only increased by four percent following the FDA’s decision, an analysis by Newsweek found.
The analysis also showed that the number of first doses administered in the 10 days after the approval actually went down nine percent, compared to the first dose rate from 10 days prior to the announcement....