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Half of all Americans are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the White House’s Covid-19 data director.

Cyrus Shahpar announced Friday morning that 50 percent of US citizens have completed their vaccination schedule.

Friday just reported in: + 821K doses including 565K re-vaccinated. The 7-day mean of the newly vaccinated is up 11% from last week and 44% over the last 2 weeks. 50% of Americans (all ages) are now fully vaccinated. Keep going! 🇺🇸

– Cyrus Shahpar (@ cyrusshahpar46) August 6, 2021

After getting off to a flying start, vaccination adoption in the US slowed in late spring and early summer. The seven-day average of new doses reported daily fell to a six-month low of about 432,500 by early July and had peaked at more than 3.4 million a day in mid-April, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This slowdown has allowed countries like the UK, the EU and Canada to overtake the US in terms of fully vaccinated populations, although their vaccine adoption is slowing or rocky.

Many federal, state, and local leaders in the U.S. government, as well as public health officials, have said vaccination rates have risen lately, possibly in response to better publicity, education, or concerns about the adverse effects of moving quickly spreading delta variant of Covid-19 in unvaccinated people.

According to the CDC, an average of about 590,000 doses were given per day in the week leading up to August 2, while Shahpar said in his Twitter message on Friday that 821,000 doses were given the previous day, including 565,000 newly vaccinated people.

The U.S. hit the milestone earlier this week that 70 percent of American adults received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. President Joe Biden had hoped to accomplish this goal by July 4th.

Twenty states have fully vaccinated at least 50 percent of their population, according to CDC figures last updated Thursday. Vermont has the highest vaccination protection of all states with 67.7 percent fully vaccinated, while Alabama comes last with 34.6 percent.

CDC numbers, scheduled to update later in the day, show that more than 165.6 million Americans are fully vaccinated, or 49.9 percent of the population.