The number of COVID-19 vaccines distributed in the U.S. is nearing 58 million, and the number of shots is slowly catching up. ►The FDA's advisory committee will meet Feb. 26 to discuss Johnson & Johnson's application for emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, the agency announced Thursday. More than 57.4 million vaccine doses have been distributed in the U.S. and about 35.2 million have been administered, according to the CDC. How a secret military experiment left Black Georgians wary of COVID vaccineBlack Americans are more hesitant than white Americans to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Convalescent plasma is the liquid part of blood collected from patients who have recovered from COVID-19, according to the FDA.