White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Jeffrey Zeints, President Joe Biden’s pandemic response coordinator, announced the new figure during a call with governors.
She also said the announcement was the fifth increase in distribution in the past five weeks.
As of Feb. 24, the U.S. seven-day average rate of doses administered was 1.4 million per day, after peaking at about 1.7 million before severe winter storms hit the country, according to a vaccine database maintained by the Times.
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