As of January 4th, the United States trails only China in the total number of Covid-10 vaccinations given with over 4.23 million doses administered from the 13,071,925 doses distributed. While this number seems significant, Adequately Vaccinating Americans Would Take 10 Years at Current Pace .

The goal was to have over 20 million people vaccinated by the end of 2020.

When you examine the vaccination rate per 100 people, the United States falls below Israel, Bahrain and the United Kingdom.

Learn more about these numbers at https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations and at the CDC website.

SC DHEC to hold update on COVID-19 vaccine Monday

SC DHEC will hold a media briefing with an update about the COVID-19 vaccine at 1pm Monday.