U.S. closing in on 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses -- who's getting them? [View all]

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BY ALEXANDER TIN

FEBRUARY 2, 2021 / 8:28 AM / CBS NEWS

Federal health officials said Monday that most of the people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine so far are women, but they do not have data on the race or ethnicity of nearly half of the first nearly 13 million Americans to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a release of its first comprehensive look at the state of the nationwide vaccine campaign, says that nationwide, 63% of those vaccinated were women and 55% were over 50 years old. The agency's researchers issued a pair of reports examining the demographics of those vaccinated nationwide through January 14 and the rollout of the shots in long-term care facilities.

Among the data that the CDC's examination had been able to gather on race and ethnicity, 60% of those vaccinated identified as non-Hispanic White.

The data skews whiter, older, and more female than the general population, though the CDC's researchers cautioned that so, too, did the groups first prioritized for the shots.

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