U.S..Overview: Daily vaccination rate rises for Americans getting their first shot ...

Covid-19 live updates: Daily vaccination rate is rising among Americans getting their first shot, officials say Twenty-six percent of Americans ranked the pandemic as the most important problem facing the United States, according to a new Gallup poll. Derek Hawkins, Bryan Pietsch, Adela Suliman, Lateshia Beachum Washington Post

The daily number of people getting their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine has risen by more than 70 percent since mid-July, White House officials said Tuesday.

On average, about 450,000 Americans a day are getting their first jab, up from 260,000 a little more than a month ago, Jeff Zients, the White House Covid-19 Response Team coordinator, said in an afternoon briefing.

“This is critical progress in the face of the delta variant,” he said. “More and more Americans are stepping up each day to get vaccinated.”

The bump in vaccinations comes as polling shows the pandemic reemerging as Americans’ top concern.

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