INSIGHTi
COVID-19 Vaccination: Selected U.S. Data
Sources
Updated December 7, 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 and caveats, and use caution when comparing data. For help interpreting or analyzing
these data, congressional staff should contact CRS (202-707-5700, or place an online request).
For an overview of considerations for Congress, see CRS Insight IN11584, Tracking COVID-19 Vaccines:
U.S. Data Systems and Related Issues. For international sources see CRS Insight IN11732, International
COVID-19 Data and Vaccine Distribution: Selected Resources.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Vaccines for COVID-19 can assist constituents
with questions about the vaccines.
Example sources on public attitudes toward vaccination include CDC’s National Immunization Survey
and State of Vaccine Confidence Insights Report, Census Bureau, Kaiser Family Foundation, Carnegie
Mel on University, Johns Hopkins, 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 (distributed) to appropriate state and
jurisdictional sites. States then al ocate and deliver doses to health departments, health care systems,
pharmacies, and multi-county entities, which can further re-al ocate to local 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 vaccine data through a
similar process.
Comirnaty (the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine) is approved as a two-dose vaccine for ages 16+.
Comirnaty is also authorized for uses that fal outside the scope of its approval—that is, as a two-dose
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regimen in individuals aged 5-15 (with a lower dose authorized for children 5-11), as a third dose for
certain immunocompromised individuals aged 12+, and as a single booster dose to be given at least six
months after the primary series in individuals aged 18+. For more information, see CRS Report R46913,
FDA Approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Frequently Asked Questions.
Vaccines manufactured by Moderna (a two-dose vaccine) and J&J/Janssen (a single-dose vaccine) are
currently authorized for emergency use for ages 18+. The Moderna vaccine is also authorized as a third
dose for certain immunocompromised individuals 18+ and as a single booster dose (half dose) to be given
at least six months after the primary series in individuals 18+. FDA has also authorized a single
J&J/Janssen booster dose to be given at least two months after a first dose. Any of the available vaccines
can be used as a “mix and match” booster dose in eligible individuals.
CDC Sources
CDC provides data on doses and people vaccinated. Some aggregated national data are available for
federal entities (Bureau of Prisons, Department of Defense, Indian Health Service, and Veterans Health
Administration; see “Data Table”). CDC also tracks rates of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and
hospitalizations by vaccination status. CDC continues to study vaccine effectiveness in real-world
conditions.
CDC (click map) compiles links to state dashboards, which may also track local data.
Non-CDC Sources
Non-CDC sources provide different visualizations and analyses of CDC data and incorporate data from
various jurisdiction-specific sources:
Bloomberg
Covid Act Now (and Harvard analysis with congressional district estimates as of
September 2021)
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine (JHU)
Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
New York Times (NYT) (subscription required)
Washington Post (WP)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posts nursing home-reported data. The Health
Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) posts data on the Health Centers Vaccination Program.
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 delivered
Number
CDC
CDC
—
NYT
NYT
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Measure
National
State
Local
Per capita
—
CDC
—
By vaccine type (J&J/Janssen,
CDC
CDC (download Data Table) —
Moderna, Comirnaty/Pfizer-
BioNTech)
Doses administered
Number
CDC (also trend)
CDC (also trend)
Harvard (congressional
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
district)a
JHU
JHU
NYT
NYT
Per capita
CDC (download Data
CDC
—
Table)
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Per day (daily count and 7-day
CDCb
CDCb
—
average, trend)
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
KFFc
KFFc
NYT
NYT
WP
WP
By vaccine type
CDC
CDC (download Data Table) —
NYT (trend)
Percentage of delivered doses that
Bloomberg (“Supply
Bloomberg (“Supply used”)
—
have been administered
used”)
NYT (“Doses used”)
NYT (“Doses used”)
People vaccinated
People who received ≥1 dose
CDC (also trend)b
CDC (also trend)b
CDC (county)
(number)
CDC (CBSA)d
Harvard (congressional
district)a
People who received ≥1 dose
CDC
CDC
CDC (county)
(percentage)
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
CDC (CBSA)d
Covid Act Now
Covid Act Nowe
Covid Act Now (county,
NYT (also trend)
NYT (also trend)
metro area)e
Harvard (congressional
district)a
People ful y vaccinatedf (number)
CDC (also trend)b
CDC (also trend)b
CDC (county)
JHU (see “People ful y
JHU
CDC (CBSA)d
vaccinated”)
WP
Harvard (congressional
WP
district)a
People ful y vaccinatedf (percentage)
CDC
CDC
CDC (county, also case
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
rates and testing positivity
JHU
Covid Act Nowe
map)
NYT
JHU
CDC (CBSA)d
Covid Act Now (county,
WP
NYT
metro area)e
WP
Harvard (congressional
district)a
NYT (county)
WP (county)
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Measure
National
State
Local
People ful y vaccinatedf by vaccine
CDC
CDC (download Data Table) —
type
People who received additional
CDCg (also trend)
CDCg (download Data
—
(including booster) doses
Bloomberg
Table)
WP
Bloomberg
WP
Demographicsh
CDC (race/ethnicity,
CDC (aged 65+)
CDC (age, county and
sex, age; also trends)
CDC (urban/rural, trend)
CBSAd)
CDC (aged 65+)
Bloomberg (race/ethnicity)
CDC (aged 65+, county)
CDC (trends by age,
KFF (race/ethnicity)
CDC (social vulnerability,
alongside cases)
urban/rural, county)
NYT (age)
CDC (disability status
NYT (aged 65+, county)
HRSA (race/ethnicity, health
and age,
centers program)
race/ethnicity)
CDC (pregnant
people by
race/ethnicity, trend)
CDC (urban/rural,
trend)
KFF (race/ethnicity)
NYT (age)
WP (race/ethnicity,
age trends)
HRSA (race/ethnicity,
health centers
program)
Nursing homes
Percent of residents and staff
CDC (trend)
CDC (trend)
CMS (facility-level data in
vaccinated
CMS
CMS
“Search for a nursing
home”)
Medicare.gov (facility-level
data; search for a nursing
home)
Source: CRS based on sources as of December 1, 2021.
Notes: Some sources report similar data, but with different visualizations and analysis.
a. Data were last updated September 2021 but may be of historical interest.
b. See also 7-day average trend alongside cases or deaths, see “View (right axis).”
c. Click “Vaccines”: “Daily.”
d. Scrol to Excel spreadsheets under “Attachments.” Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas are col ectively
known as Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs).
e. Search state, city, or county, then scrol to “% Vaccinated” for trend.
f.
As defined in these data sources, “ful y vaccinated” people have received the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or
one dose of a single-shot vaccine (CDC).
g. Includes number, percentage, and by vaccine type.
h. Not al states report demographics on vaccine recipients.
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Author Information
Ada S. Cornell
Angela Napili
Senior Research Librarian
Senior Research Librarian
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