The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has over-counted the number of people who are partially vaccined against COVID-19, according to a report.
The CDC last week revised the number of people 65 years old or older who had been partially vaccineed from 99% to 95%. The raw shot totals were not changed by the change.
The state and local officials have been sounding the alarm that it's unlikely that 37 million received a first vaccine dose and didn't return for their second. The US has a larger gap between fully and partially vaccineed than other developed countries.
More than two hundred million people in the US have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to data on the CDC's website accessed Saturday. The data shows that 203,479,206 people have been fully vaccined and 58,185,916 have received a booster dose.
The state and local officials who spoke to Bloomberg said that the difficulty domestically was due to the fact that health systems across the US are so fragmented, creating issues accurately combining data from different localities and states.
James Garrow, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, said that it has made it difficult for them.
He said that they don't have any faith in the numbers on the CDC website.
The CDC did not respond to Insider's request for comment on Saturday, and did not respond to a report from the city.
The Omicron variant of the coronaviruses is highly transmissible in the US, but doesn't appear to cause more severe disease than previous strains, according to early data.
