USA Leads the World in COVID-19 Vaccinations

The COVID-19 vaccine development landscape includes innovative platforms such as DNA, RNA, virus-like particle, peptide, viral vector, recombinant protein, live attenuated virus, and inactivated virus approaches.

As of February 25, 2021, the U.S. CDC reported 46,074,392 first-dose vaccines had been administered, and the number of people receiving 2 vaccine doses has reached 21,555,117.

And, according to Our World in Data, the USA leads all other countries with over 68 million vaccine doses administered with the UK reporting about 19.3 million vaccine doses administered.

Throughout the world, there are eleven different COVID-19 vaccines being administered, with several vaccine candidates pending authorization in late-stage clinical studies.