Vaccine Use In New Jersey: How Many Shots Have Been Given?

NEW JERSEY — As millions of Americans continue waiting for their turn to receive a coronavirus vaccine and distribution has ramped up in much of the country, states continue to differ in how much of their supply has been used so far.

In New Jersey, 2,479,720 vaccine doses have been distributed, and 1,943,116 have been administered, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that is updated daily. In the Garden State, 1,348,635 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 670,703 people have received both doses, according to the CDC.

That’s 21,877 per every 100,000 New Jersey residents have received doses of the vaccine.

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The country’s vaccination effort topped 70 million administered doses as of Friday, as approval appears likely soon of a third vaccine for Americans.

The vaccine developed by drugmaker Johnson & Johnson is about 66 percent effective at preventing moderate-to-severe COVID-19, and about 85 percent effective against the most serious illness, Food and Drug Administration regulators have said, according to an Associated Press report. It is safe and effective, the FDA said.

The J&J vaccine requires only one shot, while the vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna already in use require two separate inoculations weeks apart.

Approval for the J&J vaccine could come as early as Friday, but it might not immediately speed up the vaccine numbers.

Only a few million doses are expected to be ready for shipping in the first week, the AP reported. But officials for the drugmaker have told Congress they expect 20 million doses to be distributed by the end of March and 100 million by summer.

As of Friday, 94.3 million vaccine doses had been distributed in the country, with 47.2 million people receiving at least one dose. More than 22.6 million have received both doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, which accounts for about 6.8 percent of the U.S. population.

Only Alaska and New Mexico have administered more than 30,000 doses per 100,000 residents as of Friday, according to a CDC a map detailing vaccine totals by state.

Nationally, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been given about 36.2 million times and the Moderna vaccine about 34.2 million times.

The CDC has not yet released county-level data on vaccinations.