Nearly 130 million adults have received at least a single dose.

According to a weekend announcement from the Biden Administration, the United States has hit an uplifting new milestone in the vaccination effort against the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 130 million US citizens aged 18 or older, approximately 50.4% of the country’s total population, have received at least one shot of one of the COVID-19 vaccines. Additionally, nearly 84 million adults, approximately 32.5% of the population, have been fully vaccinated against the virus.

Recently, one of the vaccines, Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine, was temporarily paused by the CDC after six adult women were diagnosed with potentially life-threatening blood clots, though this is against around seven million shots administered without incident. According to the White House’s Chief Medical Adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the J&J shots are projected to resume circulation and use by the end of the week, albeit with some additional warnings about extremely rare blood clot complications.

“The pause was to take a look, make sure we know all the information we can have within that timeframe, and also warn some of the physicians out there who might see people, particularly women, who have this particular adverse event, that they treat them properly,” Fauci explained.

“I think it’ll likely say, ‘OK, we’re going to use it. But be careful under these certain circumstances.’”

According to current pandemic statistics gathered by John Hopkins University, the global coronavirus death toll has exceeded 3 million. Statisticians that gathered this data have advised that these numbers are only from directly reported and recorded deaths that were confirmed to be COVID-19-related, and that the actual number of deaths, when factoring in unreported or unverified cases, may very well be much higher.