Currently 63.1 percent of the eligible population over-12 are fully vaccinated, or 54 percent of the total population.
This places the United States well behind global leaders like Portugal and the UAE (81 and 79 percent fully vaccinated), despite its abundance of shots.County-by-county analysis of the California recall voteNewsom survives California recall electionPrior to the Delta wave, some experts declared that, between the percent of people vaccinated and those who had gained immunity through natural infection, the country was approaching the point of herd immunityRather than eradication, the goal has shifted toward taming the virus for vaccinated people such that in rare cases of breakthrough infections, the disease is more flu-likeHowever, uncertainties remain: for instance, people with breakthrough Covid infections might still get long Covid