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The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States is an ongoing mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine on December 10, 2020, [ 7] and mass vaccinations began four days later. The Moderna ...
CoronaVac, also known as the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, [ 3] was a whole inactivated virus COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech. [ 4][ 5] It was phase III clinically trialled in Brazil, [ 6] Chile, [ 7] Indonesia, [ 8] the Philippines, [ 9] and Turkey [ 10] and relies on traditional technology similar to other ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in May 1974 with the objective to vaccinate children throughout the world. Ten years later, in 1984, the WHO established a standardized vaccination schedule for the EPI vaccines: Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP), oral ...
You won’t have to pay for the vaccine. But it will take a few minutes longer than the flu shot. That’s because the pharmacist or nurse practitioner will watch you for 15 to 30 minutes to make ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) in 1988 to compensate individuals and families of individuals injured by covered childhood vaccines. [ 3] The VICP was adopted in response to concerns over the pertussis portion of the DPT vaccine. [ 1]
A single 120 microgram dose of the vaccine generated strong neutralizing antibodies against both subtypes of RSV, called RSV-A and RSV-B, across all groups in the study, Pfizer said. The drugmaker ...
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Quebec ( French: Campagne de vaccination contre la Covid-19 au Québec) was a provincial effort to distribute and administer vaccines against COVID-19 . Quebec received their first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines on December 13, 2020. [2] Priority vaccination of long-term care home residents and healthcare ...
In late October, NACI recommended the use of booster shots (third doses) of vaccines for certain immunocompromised peoples, people over the age of 70, people who had received a full series of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine or Janssen vaccine and those in healthcare following 6 months of full vaccination. Many provinces then followed suit. [113]