Agencies partially addressed another 48 recommendations. As of September 30, 2021, agencies had addressed 33 of these recommendations, resulting in improvements including increased oversight of relief payments to individuals and improved transparency of decision-making for emergency use authorizations for vaccines and therapeutics. In that vein, GAO has made 209 recommendations across its body of COVID-19 reports issued since June 2020. Furthermore, as the administration implements the provisions in the COVID-19 relief laws, the size and scope of these efforts-from distributing funding to implementing new programs-demand strong accountability and oversight. The government must remain vigilant and agile to address the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and its cascading impacts. population eligible for vaccination (those 12 years and older), or almost 183 million individuals, had been fully vaccinated, according to CDC. As of September 23, 2021, about 64 percent of the U.S. Meanwhile, COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue. Reported COVID-19 Cases per Day in the U.S., Mar.
This was a daily case count not seen since February 2021 (see figure). From the end of July 2021 to September 23, 2021, the number of new cases reported each day generally exceeded 100,000, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. As the nation continues to respond to, and recover from, the COVID-19 pandemic, increases in COVID-19 cases in July, August, and September 2021, primarily due to the Delta variant of the virus, have hampered these efforts.