nationwide. moore states are expanding eligibility every day. you can see in the numbers that the vaccine rollout is ready speeding up. the united states is averaging more than 2.3 million shots per day. with saturday marking the largest single day jump in vaccinations that we ve seen so far. nearly 70 million americans have now received at least one dose. more than 37 million americans are now fully vaccinated. that is more than 11% of the population. and while those numbers are great news and they really are, there is also real concern for the 89% of the rest of the population, if you will, as spring break travel is leading to scenes like this. large crowds packing beaches in florida and plane travel just hit a pandemic record despite the cdc still warning against it. we re going to wait to hear from the biden team on. that we re also standing about toy by to hear about that. a massive effort to try to tackle vaccine hesitancy that is still a really problem across the count
this through the mhra. it means that uk patients will have access to the broader immunity that the bivalent vaccine offers. so it s an exciting potential and it s good news for the uk population. joining us live now is our health reporter, smitha mundasad. steve backley says this is exciting and others say this is another tool in the armoury against covid. why is it so important? the in the armoury against covid. why is it so important? it so important? the vaccines available it so important? the vaccines available right it so important? the vaccines available right now it so important? the vaccines available right now across i it so important? the vaccinesj available right now across the it so important? the vaccines i available right now across the world are designed against the original covid variant that appeared in wuhan in 2019. but this vaccine is different, there are 20 targets, the original virus but also the 0micron family of variants of the virus that are most common
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