COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review: Interpretive Summary for August 27, 2021

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Interpretive Summary for August 27, 2021
  
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  On August 23, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approvalexternal icon of the Comirnaty/Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in people ages 16 years and older. The vaccine continues to be available under emergency use authorization for adolescents ages 12 to 15 years, and for the administration of a third dose in some immunocompromised people. As of August 26, 2021, 203 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 172 million people, or about 52% of the U.S. population, are fully vaccinated.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Coronavirus Infections/prevention & Control COVID-19 Local Government Pandemics Public Health Public Health Practice
• Series:
  CDC COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review
• Document Type:
  Text
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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