About 1 in 6 US Adults Are Fully Vaccinated Against CCP Virus

Brothers Ames, 17 (2nd L) and Amiel, 19 (2nd R) arrive to receive their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at the Blood Bank of Alaska in Anchorage on March 19, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Approximately 43 million adults in the United States have been fully vaccinated against the CCP virus, the disease that causes COVID-19, according to newly updated federal data.

As of March 20, nearly 43,036,820 adults had been fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s equal to about 13 percent of the U.S. population, or about 1 in 6 adults in the country.