A U.S. Vaccine Surge Is Coming, With Millions of Doses Promised
New supplies should help the pace of vaccinations double in coming weeks
Volunteers assist people at a Sharp HealthCare mass vaccination super site inside the Grossmont Center Mall in La Mesa, California on Feb. 11.
Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergThe U.S. vaccine supply is poised to double in the coming weeks and months, according to an analysis by Bloomberg, allowing a broad expansion of doses administered across the country.
Currently, the U.S. is administering 1.6 million doses a day, constrained by the recent supply of about 10 million to 15 million doses a week. But Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers and U.S. officials have accelerated their production timelines and signaled that the spigots are about to open, providing hundreds of millions of doses to match the growing capacity to immunize people at pharmacies and mass-vaccination sites.