(CNN) Exactly one year after the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a pandemic and about three months since the first Americans outside of clinical trials got shots, one in 10 people in the US are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If the United States doesn't reach 80% of the population having immunity via inoculations because people lost interest in being vaccinated, another surge is possible, he said. The vaccine news came ahead of President Joe Biden's address to Americans on Thursday night about the pandemic and the next chapter. With the US population being around 330 million people, about 3.3 million deaths represents 1% of the nation's total population. Average hospital admissions and Covid-19 deaths were also down over the past week, she added.

Source: The Nation March 12, 2021 02:48 UTC