About 2.5 million people are receiving COVID-19 vaccines per day in the United States, according to the Biden administration, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns of an “avoidable surge” amid increases in cases attributed to new variants of the CCP virus. Andrew Slavitt, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS), told reporters at a virtual press conference that the 2.5 million figure was an increase from 900,000 per day at the start of the Biden administration. “This weekend was the first time that the U.S. reported vaccinating more than 3 million people on consecutive days,” he said Monday. Nearly one in three adults, or a total of 81 million people in the country, have had at least one vaccine dose, and 44 million people are fully vaccinated, Slavitt said. Of the senior population, nearly 69 percent have received their first vaccination, and 42 …