INSIGHTi
COVID-19 Vaccination: Selected U.S. Data
Sources
Updated June 23, 2021
The sources below can help congressional staff track the progress of the U.S. Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) vaccination campaign at the national, state, and local levels.
Sources were selected for having commonly cited and frequently requested data. This list is not intended
to be comprehensive. Because different resources use different methodologies, readers should check
websites’ notes, definitions, and caveats. Readers should also use caution when comparing data across
sources or geographies. For assistance in interpreting or analyzing these data, congressional staff should
contact CRS (202-707-5700, or place a request at the CRS website).
For an overview of vaccine data systems and considerations for Congress, see CRS Insight IN11584,
Tracking COVID-19 Vaccines: U.S. Data Systems and Related Issues.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) COVID-19 Vaccine website can assist constituents
with questions, including “How Do I Find a Vaccine?”
Example data sources on public attitudes toward vaccination include Census Bureau (HHS analysis),
University of Southern California, Kaiser Family Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University, AP-NORC,
and scholarly articles.
About Vaccine Data
In the COVID-19 vaccine program, doses are first allocated and made available to states and other
jurisdictions for ordering. Once ordered, doses are delivered to the appropriate state and jurisdictional
sites. States then allocate and distribute doses to health departments, health care systems, and multi-
county entities, which can further re-allocate to local physician offices and other clinical sites. Providers
then administer doses to patients and report administration data to jurisdictions and CDC. (See CDC’s
How COVID-19 Vaccines Get to You and About COVID-19 Vaccine Delivered and Administration Data).
Federal health care programs (e.g., Veterans Health Administration) manage and report vaccine data
through a similar process.
Two of the vaccines currently approved, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, require two doses for full
effectiveness. A third, J&J/Janssen, is a single-dose vaccine.
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CDC Sources
CDC’s COVID Data Tracker provides data on doses and people vaccinated, for the total population and
populations aged 12+, 18+, and 65+. Some data are available by federal entity (i.e., Bureau of Prisons,
Department of Defense, Indian Health Service, and Veterans Health Administration). CDC also has data
on international vaccination efforts.
Non-CDC Sources
Non-CDC sources provide different visualizations and analyses of CDC data and incorporate data from
various jurisdiction-specific sources:
American Public Media Research Lab (APM)
Bloomberg (some links require a free account, also international data)
Covid Act Now (and Harvard analysis with congressional district estimates)
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine (JHU) (also international data)
Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
New York Times (NYT)
Washington Post (WP)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posts nursing home-reported data on staff and resident
vaccination status.
CDC (click map) compiles links to state dashboards, which may also track local data.
Vaccination Data Sources
Table 1 links to websites containing specific vaccination statistics.
Table 1. Vaccination Data
(links to selected resources)
Measure
National
State
Local
Doses allocated
Numbera
KFF
CDC
KFF
Doses delivered
Number
CDC
CDC
NYT
NYT
WP
Per capita
CDC
By vaccine type (J&J/Janssen,
CDC
CDC (download Data Table)
Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech)
By channel (channels include, e.g.,
CDC
jurisdictions, retail pharmacy
program, renal dialysis program,
health centers program, FEMA
community vaccination centers)
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Measure
National
State
Local
Doses administered
Number
CDC
CDC
Harvard (congressional
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
district)
JHU
JHU
NYT
NYT
Per capita
CDC
People covered by administered
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
dosesb
Per day (daily count and 7-day rolling
CDC
Bloomberg
average, trend)
Bloomberg
WP
NYT
WP
By vaccine type
CDC
CDC (download Data Table)
NYT (trend)
Percentage of delivered doses that
Bloomberg (“Supply
CDC (first doses)
have been administered
used”)
CDC (see “Administration
NYT (“Doses used”)
Ratio: Overall Adjusted”)c
Bloomberg (“Supply used”)
NYT (“Doses used”)
People vaccinated
People who received ≥1 dose
CDC (also trend)
CDC
CDC (county)
(number)
WP
WP
Harvard (congressional
district)
People who received ≥1 dose
CDC
CDC
CDC (county)
(percentage of population)
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Covid Act Now (search
NYT (also trend)
Covid Act Now (search
city or county, then scroll
WP
state then scroll to “Percent
to “Percent Vaccinated”
Vaccinated” for trend)
for trend)
NYT (also trend)
Harvard (congressional
WP
district)
People fully vaccinatedd (number)
CDC (also trend)
CDC
CDC (county)
JHU
JHU
Harvard (congressional
WP
WP
district)
People fully vaccinatedd (percentage
CDC
CDC
CDC (county)
of population)
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Covid Act Now (search
JHU
Covid Act Now (search
city or county, then scroll
NYT
state, then scroll to “Percent to “Percent Vaccinated”
for trend)
WP
Vaccinated” for trend)
JHU
Harvard (congressional
NYT
district)
WP
NYT (county)
WP (county)
People fully vaccinatedd by vaccine
CDC
CDC (download Data Table)
type
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Measure
National
State
Local
Demographicse
CDC (race/ethnicity,
CDC (aged 65+)
CDC (aged 65+, county)
sex, age; also trends)
APM (race/ethnicity)
NYT (aged 65+, county)
CDC (aged 65+)
Bloomberg (race/ethnicity)
APM (race/ethnicity)
KFF (race/ethnicity)
KFF (race/ethnicity)
NYT (age)
NYT (age)
WP (race, ethnicity,
and age trends)
Nursing homes
Percent of residents and staff fully
CMS
CMS (Search city or state
vaccinated
in “Search for a nursing
home”; click dot for
facility-level data)
Source: CRS based on data sources as of June 21, 2021.
Note: Some sources report similar data, but with different visualizations and analysis.
a. Tables have federal allocations to jurisdictions. Tables do not reflect other channels such as the retail pharmacy
program or health centers program.
b. “People covered” is a figure calculated by Bloomberg to facilitate international comparisons.
c. “The adjusted metric is the standard being used to assess administration ratios for the US COVID-19 Vaccination
Program. Interpretation of these metrics for remote jurisdictions (e.g., territories, Hawaii, Alaska) should be done
with caution, as they have different delivery schedules than jurisdictions located in the continental United States.”
(CDC)
d. “Fully vaccinated” people have received the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-shot vaccine.
(CDC)
e. Not all states report demographics.
Author Information
Ada S. Cornell
Angela Napili
Senior Research Librarian
Senior Research Librarian
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