• A Reuters report, on Wednesday, quoted two sources with direct knowledge of vaccine delivery and use as stating that the expired doses were made by AstraZeneca, delivered from Europe and supplied via COVAX, the dose-sharing facility led by the GAVI vaccine alliance and the World Health Organisation, WHO. (vanguardngr.com)
  • But only around 296 million doses of Pfizer, 83.12 million doses of Moderna, 120,000 doses of AstraZeneca and 290,000 doses of Novavax had been administered as of the end of January. (newsonjapan.com)
  • In the case of the United Kingdom, they've already distributed more than 12 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and they haven't seen those trends or patterns across the community. (abc.net.au)
  • Australia has ordered several million doses of both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines from overseas. (abc.net.au)
  • It has also arranged for 50 million AstraZeneca doses - the bulk of the national vaccine supply - to be made by medical manufacturer CSL in Melbourne. (abc.net.au)
  • Why are millions of doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines lying unused in EU countries? (newstatesman.com)
  • Last week, reports began to emerge that only a small fraction of the doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine distributed to EU member states were being used. (newstatesman.com)
  • The German health ministry said last week that it had used just 15 per cent of the AstraZeneca doses it has received as people across the country refuse the jab. (newstatesman.com)
  • France had issued just 16 per cent of its AstraZeneca doses as of 25 February, Italy a fifth and Spain a third. (newstatesman.com)
  • It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally. (npr.org)
  • Adar Poonawalla, 40, told NPR last June that he decided to invest tens of millions of dollars in glass vials alone and produce four different coronavirus vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca one. (npr.org)
  • Brazil also is battling bureaucracy in China to free up exports of active ingredients for vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Sinovac Biotech, three people familiar with talks told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday. (aljazeera.com)
  • Brazil's federally funded biomedical centre Fiocruz said it would not be able to deliver finished doses of the AstraZeneca shot until March as it waits for the first shipment of active ingredients from China. (aljazeera.com)
  • Also Monday, the alliance announced that Sweden's government has committed to donate 1 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine "to help COVAX urgently address immediate-term supply delays. (kstp.com)
  • The arrangement means Cambridge, Mass.-based Moderna can join the COVAX rollout that already includes vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca, which has the biggest role so far in the program, and Pfizer-BioNTech, which has committed far fewer doses to it. (kstp.com)
  • Gavi's rush to get vaccines to poorer countries - particularly in light of the delays in supply from India - got a boost when Sweden's government announced plans to donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to India through COVAX. (kstp.com)
  • In contracts signed between October 2020 and March 2022, Japan ordered 399 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc., 213 million doses from Moderna Inc., 120 million doses from Astra Zeneca Plc, and 150 million doses from Novavax Inc. (newsonjapan.com)
  • On advice from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency the NHS has agreed with manufacturers to an extension of the shelf-life of some vaccine batches - namely by two weeks for Pfizer and by 30 days for Moderna. (independent.co.uk)
  • The milestone comes as MHS service members and beneficiaries have either received all shots necessary for immunization against SARS-CoV-2 or who have had at least one shot of a two-dose regimen of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine (labeled as that or as the brand name Comirnaty), the Moderna two-dose vaccine, or one dose as required for the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine. (health.mil)
  • The administration says it plans to buy an additional 100 million doses each from both Moderna and Pfizer, which has a vaccine with its German counterpart, BioNTech. (kqed.org)
  • Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines require a two-dose regimen per person. (kqed.org)
  • Today the CDC issued an official recommendation that some people with weakened immune systems need an additional COVID-19 vaccine dose if they have had either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. (wvxu.org)
  • And the other thing to note is that this only applies to people who got a two-dose Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. (wvxu.org)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Tuesday an agreement with Moderna, Inc. to manufacture and deliver 100 million doses of the company's COVID-19 vaccine candidate. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Moderna will manufacture the vaccine doses while clinical trials are underway. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Today's investment represents the next step in supporting this vaccine candidate all the way from early development by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, through clinical trials, and now large-scale manufacturing, with the potential to bring hundreds of millions of safe and effective doses to the American people. (eurasiareview.com)
  • U.S. biotech company Moderna will provide up to 500 million doses for the U.N.-backed program to ship coronavirus vaccines to needy people in low- and middle-income countries, but shipments won't begin until the fourth quarter, the company and program leaders said Monday. (kstp.com)
  • Moderna has already struck, and been delivering on, supply agreements with many rich countries, which have received millions of doses of its vaccine. (kstp.com)
  • The rollout of Moderna vaccines for COVAX is not set to begin until the fourth quarter of this year, and the vast majority of the doses in the deal - 466 million - are planned for next year. (kstp.com)
  • When you return for your second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, make sure to bring your printed COVID-19 vaccine card with you. (noozhawk.com)
  • A health worker prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine during a rural vaccination drive by Broadreach NGO at Duduzile Secondary School in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This is certainly a milestone, but there is plenty of work ahead and millions more Arizonans in need of vaccination," said Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. (sedona.biz)
  • HANOI - The United States will provide an additional 1 million coronavirus vaccine doses to Vietnam, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday, offering additional aid to a country currently grappling with a fresh coronavirus surge and stubbornly low vaccination rates. (npr.org)
  • A woman receives a dose of Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease vaccine at a vaccination centre as the sanitary authority starts a vaccination campaign for under 30-year-old people in Santiago, Chile, on May 25 this year. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said in a news release that the vaccination site will receive 168,000 doses over the course of eight weeks, leading to more than 100,000 people being vaccinated. (health.mil)
  • Governor Wilson Lima led a ceremony that kicked off the vaccination campaign on Monday night in Manaus, home to about 2.2 million people and the capital of Amazonas, which received 256,000 initial doses of COVID-19 vaccines. (aljazeera.com)
  • If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorizes use as outlined in agency guidance, the vaccine doses would be distributed and used as part of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign. (eurasiareview.com)
  • If these doses are used in a COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the vaccine would be available to the American people at no cost. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Some media outlets called it "the biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway," and according to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker, China has surpassed the US in the daily rate of doses administered and topped the list by about 6.7 million doses administered every day, though the average inoculation rate remained lower at 11.3 percent. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • In contrast to former president Donald Trump 's state-led approach, Biden has committed to a federalized vaccination campaign nationwide, repeating a campaign promise to have 100 million shots administered in his first 100 days in office. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • In addition, DOHMH conducted a large-scale school-located vaccination program that offered pH1N1 vaccine to virtually all of the 1.4 million NYC schoolchildren in kindergarten through grade 12 ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In March 2021, fol owing reports of rare blood coagulation disorders in a few individuals who had received the AZ vaccine in Europe, the WHO's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) reviewed al available information and data on thromboembolic events (blood clots) and thrombocytopenia (low platelets) after vaccination. (who.int)
  • As of 1 November, the vaccination services were significantly expanded across the country where over 120 external vaccination sites were set out Iraq-wide to target 12 million people including children aged 12 years and above. (who.int)
  • METHODS: We evaluated the effect against incident SARS-CoV-2 infection of (1) prior infection without vaccination, (2) vaccination (2 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine) without prior infection, and (3) vaccination after prior infection, all compared with unvaccinated persons without prior infection. (cdc.gov)
  • In a new study published in the journal Vaccine , researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and partners from the Ministry of Health of Rwanda and Université Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) estimate the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage among cohorts of girls in Rwanda. (who.int)
  • Concerns have been raised that "millions" of coronavirus vaccine doses could go to waste in England. (independent.co.uk)
  • Japan's audit board has requested the health ministry provide supporting documentation for contracts with U.S and British coronavirus vaccine manufacturers after finding a weak basis for ordering a total of 882 million doses in fiscal 2020 and 2021. (newsonjapan.com)
  • About 6 million of the doses will arrive in the first quarter of 2021 under the COVAX scheme, with the remainder due by mid-year, Faisal Sultan, special assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, said in a statement. (livemint.com)
  • Phoenix AZ (March 5, 2021) - Arizona has administered its 2 millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine as the state and local partners work to get the currently limited supply into arms as quickly as possible, including highly targeted efforts in underserved areas. (sedona.biz)
  • In all, UNICEF will be supplying up to 1 billion syringes and 10 million safety boxes to countries in 2021 to ensure they are ready for COVID-19 vaccinations. (unicef.org)
  • UNICEF is aiming to make 2 billion COVID-19 doses available for delivery in 2021. (unicef.org)
  • The medics departed Kansas on April 9, 2021, for St. Paul, Minnesota, in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency COVID-19 response operations. (health.mil)
  • On February 27th of this year 2021, the FDA granted emergency use authorization for the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine and the first post-authorization doses were given March 2nd. (cdc.gov)
  • With accelerating inoculation pace in China, which has reached 10 million doses per day, the country has administered over 300 million doses domestically, and Yang believes the immune barrier of 1 billion people can be achieved by around the end of 2021 or the start of next year. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • Pfizer, another large vaccine maker, planned to ask the FDA for emergency clearance for young children in October 2021, but interim results from a clinical trial showed the two-dose regimen did not produce an adequate immune response in some of the children. (theepochtimes.com)
  • COVAX has delivered more than 188 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 138 countries and regions to date (as of Aug. 6, 2021). (vfa.de)
  • At least two billionquality-assured and needs-based vaccine doses should be ready by the end of 2021 to end the acute phase of the pandemic, according to COVAX's stated goal. (vfa.de)
  • At the G7 digital summit on Feb. 19, 2021, for example, the EU announced it would increase its support for the COVAX Facility to 1 billion euros, after initially pledging 500 million euros. (vfa.de)
  • Germany announced an additional 980 million euros for COVAX at that summit and added another 100 million euros on May 22, 2021. (vfa.de)
  • Baghdad,1 December 2021 - Over 2.9 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Iraq this month, bringing the total vaccines procured for this country through the COVAX Facility to over 6 million doses. (who.int)
  • The Washington Post and New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, said President Joe Biden was due to formally announce the huge donation of Pfizer-BioNTech doses at a G7 meeting in Britain this week. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • In comparison, 2.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had been administered. (bangkokpost.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection risk by 80% and, for those with prior infection, increased protection from prior infection alone. (cdc.gov)
  • According to the WHO, the doses had expired and 800,000 additional doses that had been at risk of expiry in October were all used in time. (vanguardngr.com)
  • On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it had cleared nearly 800,000 additional doses of Jynneos, the monkeypox vaccine. (boston.com)
  • The report released Wednesday by the Board of Audit of Japan also found that at least 30 percent of the doses were either canceled or disposed of after expiring. (newsonjapan.com)
  • New York City has dosed 455,737 thus far (52 percent of the doses delivered to date, a marked increase from where that metric stood last week). (nbcnewyork.com)
  • Subject to technical success and EUA or licensure, the company would begin nationwide delivery of these vaccine doses to locations at the U.S. government's direction beginning in the fourth quarter of 2020. (defense.gov)
  • In the first five weeks of the nationwide rollout, the Trump administration's $18 billion Operation Warp Speed effort delivered 36 million vaccines nationwide, far short of its initial goal of distributing 300 million doses by the end of 2020. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • Since February 12, 2020, approximately 6.5 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and 190,000 SARS-CoV-2-associated deaths have been reported in the United States (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • Monkeypox vaccine: Tens of thousands of monkeypox vaccine doses to be distributed immediately in U.S. (nbcnews.com)
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told CNBC on Monday that there will be roughly 40 million doses of vaccine available by the end of this year between the two companies, enough to inoculate about 20 million people. (nbcdfw.com)
  • After myself and seven other governors called on the Trump Administration to release more doses, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said that relief was on the way," Cuomo wrote. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • Pakistan has secured 17 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine under a global scheme to deliver coronavirus treatments to developing nations, a government health official said on Saturday. (livemint.com)
  • Gov. Jared Polis on Friday announced that Sally Sliger of Mead won the first of five $1 million prizes for residents who have received the COVID-19 vaccine. (kusi.com)
  • ABUJA, May 24 (Reuters) - Nigeria has received 4.4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N Covid-19 vaccine from Spain, a government official said on Tuesday. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • PARIS - The United States is set to buy 500 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to distribute around the world, media reported Wednesday, as France and Belgium relaxed virus restrictions to allow restaurants and cafes to serve indoors. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Packed on pallets and stacked up to the rafters were up to 70 million COVID-19 vaccine doses - enough to inoculate several countries. (npr.org)
  • The Defense Health Agency developed this digital toolkit to help you communicate with beneficiaries about the COVID-19 vaccine. (health.mil)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense (DOD) today announced an agreement with U.S.-based Pfizer Inc. for large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States following the vaccine's successful manufacture and approval. (defense.gov)
  • Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Sunday that Egypt will start producing China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in June, according to the Xinhua News Agency. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • People who need a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine will receive an email one week before their second dose due date, according to the county. (noozhawk.com)
  • The decision to authorize would mean some 20 million of the youngest children in America could get a COVID-19 vaccine for the first time since the pandemic started. (theepochtimes.com)
  • MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials said Friday they will use 1 million U.S. doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to inoculate people along the border. (kusi.com)
  • It plans to inoculate 70 million people by the end of this year. (com.pk)
  • Health Canada reports that orders have been placed with suppliers for more than 13 million doses of the influenza vaccine this year. (timescolonist.com)
  • Military Medical officials, including Army Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Ronald J. Place, Defense Health Agency director, back FY 23 Budget before the Senate Appropriations Committee, March 29, 2022. (health.mil)
  • It expects to have millions of doses available in 2022. (ksut.org)
  • Poorer countries are expected to receive at least 1.8 billion of these vaccine doses to protect at least some of their populations by early 2022. (vfa.de)
  • The main role of the COVAX Facility is to order vaccine doses from manufacturers and allocate them to all countries that have declared their participation in COVAX. (vfa.de)
  • FALLS CHURCH, Virginia - The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that TRICARE beneficiaries in 14 counties in New Jersey may receive emergency prescription refills now through Oct. 10, 2023, due to flooding. (health.mil)
  • With just 1,000 doses from the CDC to distribute at one clinic, New York, which began administering shots on June 23, quickly ran out. (nbcnews.com)
  • The sources, who spoke anonymously due to diplomatic sensitivities, said red tape in China was holding back supplies needed for Brazil to finish and distribute millions more doses from its own biomedical facilities. (aljazeera.com)
  • It will likely take months, maybe even more than a year, to distribute enough doses for the U.S. and the rest of the world to achieve so-called herd immunity and suppress the virus, public health officials and health experts warn. (nbcdfw.com)
  • Mexican officials say they will have to obtain another 2 million doses of the one-shot vaccine - which they might purchase from Johnson & Johnson - to vaccinate 3 million border residents between 18 and 40 years old. (kusi.com)
  • Even without the Valneva vaccine, the government has acquired more than enough doses to fully vaccinate everyone in the country twice. (wglt.org)
  • As of May 10, Chile's Ministry of Health has administered almost 14 million CoronaVac doses, including enough to fully immunise 6.36 million people. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Vanda Ortega, 33, a member of the Witoto ethnicity and a nurse technician, received the first dose of CoronaVac, the vaccine developed by Sinovac. (aljazeera.com)
  • This single dosing regimen is in addition to the initially approved dosing regimen of 1000 mg (two 500mg vials) followed one week later by 500 mg (a single 500mg vial). (prnewswire.com)
  • This approval aligns the dosing regimen with the U.S. label, but more importantly, it could enhance the convenience of antibiotic administration for both healthcare providers and their patients. (prnewswire.com)
  • XYDALBA™ is the first and only IV antibiotic approved for the treatment of ABSSSI with a two-dose regimen of 1000 mg followed one week later by 500 mg, each administered over 30 minutes, and a single dose regimen of 1500 mg also administered over 30 minutes. (prnewswire.com)
  • The U.S.-based firm and its partner, Germany's BioNTech, turned to a three-dose regimen, hoping that would prove more successful. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Out of that total, 25,850,053 were given as second dose, thus accounting for 90.45% of the target population. (andina.pe)
  • Britain's medicines regulator said Thursday that the two-dose vaccine is intended for adults ages 18 to 50, with the second dose given about a month after the first. (wglt.org)
  • Adverse reactions reported after the second dose were milder and less frequent than after the first dose. (who.int)
  • Data subsequently reviewed by the WHO SAGE shows that the efficacy of the AZ vaccine is enhanced when the interval between the first and second dose of vaccine is increased. (who.int)
  • In the clinical trial, no cases of severe disease requiring hospitalization were observed 14 or more days after the second dose, compared to five cases in the control group. (who.int)
  • According to the report, a third source with knowledge of the delivery confirmed that some of the doses arrived within four-to-six weeks of expiry and could not be used in time, despite efforts by health authorities, even as the total count of the expired doses is still underway and an official number is yet to be finalised. (vanguardngr.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will send 56,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine immediately to areas with high transmission. (nbcnews.com)
  • The two-dose Jynneos vaccine, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, not only prevents infection, but it can also be used to stop an infection after a person is exposed. (nbcnews.com)
  • Both vaccines require two doses at varying intervals. (nbcdfw.com)
  • The federal government will own the 100 million doses of vaccine initially produced as a result of this agreement, and Pfizer will deliver the doses in the United States if the product receives Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or licensure from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as outlined in FDA guidance , after completing demonstration of safety and efficacy in a large Phase 3 clinical trial. (defense.gov)
  • The South Asian nation of 220 million people also expects China to donate a further one million doses. (livemint.com)
  • So far, 70% of the city's eligible Latinos ages 12 and up - about 93,000 people - have received at least one dose of the vaccine. (kqed.org)
  • The CDC says this recommendation affects under 3% of the U.S. population - around 7 million people in total. (wvxu.org)
  • The agency specified that this is not for the general population in long-term care facilities or people with diabetes or heart disease. (wvxu.org)
  • And while studies show that a third vaccine dose can boost antibody responses in some people, it's not universally guaranteed to work. (wvxu.org)
  • The evidence shows that the recommended one- or two-dose COVID vaccines are still protecting most people very well from getting a bad case of COVID. (wvxu.org)
  • Around 17 million people in the EU and UK have now received our vaccine, and the number of cases of blood clots reported in this group is lower than the hundreds of cases that would be expected among the general population. (abc.net.au)
  • If only a tenth of daily appointments were really being filled, I reasoned, surely they would have no problem giving spare doses to people who turn up towards the end of the day. (newstatesman.com)
  • The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that everyone six months and older get the flu shot, especially people at high risk of complications and those who can pass on the flu virus to those at high risk. (timescolonist.com)
  • The inactivated inoculation, given to more than 10 million Chileans, was slightly less effective in preventing hospitalisation and deaths than the mRNA vaccine, which was administered to fewer than half a million people, according to the study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine . (bangkokpost.com)
  • Out of a population of 207 million, Pakistan has so far inoculated nearly 12 million people amid a decline in coronavirus cases. (com.pk)
  • The Amazonas state government on Tuesday started distributing vaccine doses to municipalities, where the priority in the first phase of inoculations will be health workers, elderly people above age 80 and Indigenous people in about 265 villages. (aljazeera.com)
  • This approach helps meet the U.S. government's Operation Warp Speed goal to begin delivering 300 million of doses of safe and effective vaccine to the American people by the end of the year. (defense.gov)
  • Now, they just have to figure out how to get the vaccines - both of which require two doses given about a month apart - to 7.8 billion people across the world. (nbcdfw.com)
  • More than 320 million people live in the United States alone and some 7.8 billion across the globe. (nbcdfw.com)
  • At that rate, the country's 330 million people will see nearly two more years pass before everyone gets their second shot of the authorized vaccines. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • And only 17 million of those have actually been given to people - a consequence of a patchwork of state plans that have proven slow to administer shots. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • The lower dose vaccine produced an antibody response comparable to the ones seen in people ages 16 to 25. (tpr.org)
  • So this means tens of millions of people who got any of the three vaccines can now get boosters. (tpr.org)
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  • A spokesperson for the mayor said the city has enough vaccine for second doses for some but not all of the people who have had one shot and are waiting for their second. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • About 13% of the world's population (740 million people) is currently affected. (who.int)
  • Based on available data, severe adverse events appear to be extremely rare, estimated to occur in two per million people. (who.int)
  • Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable - so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health. (who.int)
  • 27 million SII/Covishield doses have been administered in India. (who.int)
  • Pakistan expects to receive 500,000 doses of a vaccine made by China National Pharmaceutical Group (SinoPharm) in coming days. (livemint.com)
  • It has been reported that up to 3.5 million doses could be binned, but NHS England (NHSE) said it expects the figure to be "significantly less" than this - although it did not give an exact number. (independent.co.uk)
  • And by the middle of next year, the U.S. expects to have 7 million vaccine doses. (nhpr.org)
  • The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, collaborated with the DoD Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense and Army Contracting Command to provide up to approximately $1.5 billion to manufacture and deliver the vaccine doses to government-designated locations across the country. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The first 2 million doses will be produced in June, Zayed was quoted as saying in the report, noting that the first shipment of the raw materials needed to manufacture the vaccine will be received on May 18. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • OWS radically shortened the timelines for vaccine development by sliding together clinical trials and building factories to manufacture doses before they even proved to be effective. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • A spokesperson said: "Following the Prime Minister's call for all adults to be offered a booster vaccine by the end of December, the NHS gave additional supply to sites based on their expected demand and doses requested, with more than 14 million jabs given in December alone. (independent.co.uk)
  • The Biden administration is working to purchase an additional 200 million doses of the two COVID-19 vaccines that have been authorized for emergency use, with the goal, the White House says, of having enough vaccine supply for nearly the entire U.S. population by the end of the summer. (kqed.org)
  • This increases the total vaccine order for the U.S. by 50%, from 400 million to 600 million with these additional doses expected to deliver this summer," the White House said in a fact sheet it put out before planned remarks from President Biden. (kqed.org)
  • An additional 240,000 doses will be distributed over the next few weeks, with even more to come this summer and fall. (nbcnews.com)
  • The government also can acquire up to an additional 400 million doses of the vaccine. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The agreement also allows the U.S. government to acquire an additional 500 million doses. (defense.gov)
  • Becerra said his agency has also purchased an additional 5.5 million vaccine doses and will have secured more than 6.9 million doses, all told, by May. (boston.com)
  • He mentioned in the memorandum that the existing tax on bidi should be reduced, bidi industry should be given the status of cottage industry, considering the employment of 2 million bidi workers in the country, the industry needs to be sustained, the domestic industry should be sustained by imposing additional tax on multinational tobacco companies. (who.int)
  • 00:02:31 We also have the right of first refusal on an additional one billion doses. (bvsalud.org)
  • The announcements include new investments to help Vietnam transition to cleaner energy systems and expand the use of electric vehicles, a reduction in tariffs on U.S. exports of agricultural goods, and millions in aid to clear unexploded weapons leftover from the Vietnam War. (npr.org)
  • After all, successful vaccine programmes such as Israel's and Britain's sometimes give out leftover doses to avoid waste. (newstatesman.com)
  • Residents needed to be 18 years old and have received at least one dose of the approved coronavirus vaccines to be eligible. (kusi.com)
  • In 2000, some 90 million children worldwide received at least one dose of vitamin A. Following a review of current dosage levels for infants, young children and postpartum women, new guidelines are being prepared in collaboration with UNICEF and the International Vitamin A Consultative Group. (who.int)
  • We are pleased that the EMA has approved the single dose administration of XYDALBA™," said Kiran Bhirangi, M.D., Cardiome's Head of Medical Affairs. (prnewswire.com)
  • Both syringes are of the auto-disable type, which means they cannot be used again after a single dose of vaccine has been administered. (unicef.org)
  • The new vaccine is administered as a single-dose injection into the muscle. (medscape.com)
  • A special consignment of 1.55 million Sinovac anti-Covid vaccine doses arrived at the Islamabad airport through a special PIA flight on Sunday. (com.pk)
  • A special consignment of 1.55 million Sinovac anti-Covid vaccine doses arrived at the Islamabad airport through a special PIA flight on Sunday, announced the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). (com.pk)
  • More Brazilian states administered their first COVID-19 inoculations on Tuesday, as the government distributed about six million ready doses of the vaccine from China's Sinovac after its approval on Sunday for emergency use. (aljazeera.com)
  • Dr Sultan, the de facto health minister of the country, told Anadolu Agency that Pakistan would receive around seven million vaccine doses over the next 10 days, mainly from China. (com.pk)
  • Over the next few weeks, UNICEF will ship more than 14.5 million 0.5 ml and 0.3 ml auto-disable syringes to more than 30 countries. (unicef.org)
  • U.N. children's agency UNICEF also uses the listing to deploy vaccines in an emergency like the pandemic. (kstp.com)
  • WHO, UNICEF, nongovernmental organizations, bilateral donor agencies and private industry are reinforcing their collaboration in order to accelerate progress in combating vitamin A deficiency, particularly through food fortification. (who.int)
  • COVAX has shipped tens of million of doses to dozens of low- and middle-income countries since February, and has plans to deploy 2 billion by the end of the year. (kstp.com)
  • Earlier media reports said China had exported 240 million doses of vaccines, making it the world's top exporter, and the number is expected to grow as Chinese manufacturers transferred their production lines and technologies to more developing countries, actively working with the UN-backed COVAX initiative in making the vaccines "global public goods" with the aim of ensuring vaccine distribution equity. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • To date, however, the federal government has not acted on that promise -- in fact, New York will receive just 250,000 doses this week, 50,000 fewer than the week prior. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • It is often indicated in micrograys per hour (µGy/h) or as an equivalent dose rate ḢT in rems per hour (rem/hr) or sieverts per hour (Sv/h). (wikipedia.org)
  • Last week, the city administered more than 220,000 doses alone, the equivalent of one shot every three seconds. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • We show that consumption of aspartame, an FDA-approved artificial sweetener, daily for up to 16-weeks at doses equivalent to only 7-15% of the FDA recommended maximum daily intake value (equivalent to 2-4 small, 8 oz diet soda drinks per day) produces significant spatial learning and memory deficits in mice. (bvsalud.org)
  • C57BL/6 mice consumed drinking water containing 0.015% or 0.03% aspartame, a dose equivalent of 8 to 15% of the FDA recommended maximum human daily intake, or plain drinking water. (bvsalud.org)
  • PRAGUE (AP) - Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said Monday. (apnews.com)
  • Extrapolation of the findings to humans suggests that aspartame consumption at doses below the FDA recommended maximum daily intake may produce neurobehavioral changes in aspartame-consuming individuals and their descendants. (bvsalud.org)
  • WASHINGTON - With monkeypox cases on the rise and vaccine doses in scarce supply, President Joe Biden's health secretary suggested Thursday that states and localities bear some of the responsibility for what critics have called a flawed response. (boston.com)
  • He said he was cheered by President-elect Joe Biden's stated goal of 100 million vaccine doses nationwide in the first 100 days. (nbcnewyork.com)
  • China has exported half of its produced vaccines, while the US and the UK have exported very few doses, roughly 1 to 3 percent of the total doses, respectively, according to a graphic of the Global Times. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • The total dose can be above the threshold for a deterministic effect, but if the dose is spread out over a long period of time, the effect is not observed. (wikipedia.org)
  • The same total amount of energy from indirect sunlight spread out over several years - a low average dose rate - would not cause a sunburn at all, although it may still cause skin cancer. (wikipedia.org)
  • The total excess dose for the Montreal to Frederickton flight is only 0.7 µGy. (wikipedia.org)
  • That brings the total vaccine donation to Vietnam to 6 million doses from the U.S. (npr.org)
  • another 172,289 doses were administered but not reported, for a total of 1,160,587 doses administered during this period. (cdc.gov)
  • Nigeria has already received 2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from Finland, Greece and Slovenia with more expected from EU countries. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This fill-finish manufacturing step ensures vaccine doses are packaged and ready to ship immediately, subject to successful clinical trials and FDA authorization. (eurasiareview.com)
  • They'll pore through all the scientific data and make a recommendation to the agency about whether to authorize the Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. (tpr.org)
  • The U.K. is the first country to authorize Valneva's vaccine, which is also under review by the European Medicines Agency. (wglt.org)
  • Further, Ehanire said: "Nigeria had utilized most of the over 10 million short-shelf-life doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far supplied, in good time, and saved N16.4 billion or more than $40 million in foreign exchange. (vanguardngr.com)
  • After the WHO approved the Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use, Yang Xiaoming, chairman of Sinopharm China National Biotec Group (CNBG), said in a recent interview with Chinese media outlets that the Chinese vaccine manufacturer has been ramping up efforts to expand production capacity in the third-phase of production to 3 billion doses per year. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • The public-private partnership supported the development and manufacturing of five vaccines, in addition to a $1.95 billion contract with Pfizer announced in July for 100 million doses. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • The federal government has a contract with Pfizer to buy 10 million courses of the treatment for $5.3 billion. (ksut.org)
  • COVAX, set up by GAVI, CEPI and WHO in April last year, has now secured contracts of two billion doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, which we're ready to roll out as soon as the vaccines are delivered. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to ensuring sufficient vaccine supply, partner agencies are working to ensure community awareness and provide support to vaccine administration by local health authorities. (who.int)
  • The Epidemiology Workforce Branch (EWB) is that entity responsible for implementing a major part of that strategic goal by annually training a class of approximately 80 Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers who will provide service to CDC and state and local health agencies as part of their two-year training program. (cdc.gov)
  • Last year, Canada ordered 11.2 million doses. (timescolonist.com)
  • Last year, B.C. purchased 1.5 million doses. (timescolonist.com)
  • OWS aims to begin delivery of 300 million doses of an FDA authorized, safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. (defense.gov)
  • The remaining 34 million are expected this year. (kstp.com)
  • Instead, the partnership and the CDC decided to pump out COVID-19 vaccines through the agency's long-running Vaccines for Children Program, expanding its contract with McKesson Corporation, which distributes 150 million flu shots to public health clinics, hospitals, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and other medical facilities every year. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • In 5- to 11-year-olds, for instance, a British government panel determined that 2 million vaccine doses would prevent as few as 17 hospitalizations due to acute COVID-19. (theepochtimes.com)
  • The worldwide prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition, which contributes to 60% of the 10.9 million deaths each year among children under five in developing countries (see figure in Annex), is slowly decreasing. (who.int)
  • CRME / TSX: COM) announced that XYDALBA™ (dalbavancin) has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for administration as a single, 30 minute, 1500mg infusion (three 500mg vials). (prnewswire.com)
  • About 3500 adults received a dose of the vaccine and, in one study, about 1000 participants received placebo. (medscape.com)
  • The U.S.-based company, on March 23, released a summary of interim data, announcing the trial met its endpoint, which was a certain threshold of neutralizing antibody response in both age groups after receiving a two-dose series of the vaccine. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Nigeria has, of late, enjoyed the generosity of several, mainly European countries, who have offered us doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of their stockpiles, free of charge, through COVAX or AVAT facility. (vanguardngr.com)
  • Britain was an early backer of the Valneva vaccine, agreeing to invest millions of pounds in a production facility in Scotland. (wglt.org)
  • Finally, CDC also has a grant program in childhood lead poisoning prevention, through which state and local health agencies receive Federal money to screen children for lead poisoning, ensure environmental and medical followup for poisoned children, and provide education about lead poisoning. (cdc.gov)
  • Part of the problem is that many European countries, including Germany and France, have chosen to restrict the use of the vaccine to under-65s because of a lack of clinical trial data on its effectiveness among the elderly, although the EU's European Medicines Agency has approved the jab for all age groups. (newstatesman.com)
  • Depending on success in clinical trials, today's agreement will enable the delivery of approximately 100 million doses of vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. (defense.gov)
  • That's from the main clinical study that the company conducted, testing a 10-microgram dose. (tpr.org)
  • North Korea's space agency says the country has launched a rocket carrying a military reconnaissance satellite and put it successfully into orbit. (newsonjapan.com)
  • The agency will also provide vaccines to men who have sex with men who report having had multiple recent sex partners at a venue or party where the virus is known to have spread, or who have had sex with multiple partners in an area of the country with elevated spread. (nbcnews.com)
  • The principal body governing the policies and implementation of the national Covid-19 efforts in the country further added that another consignment of two to three million doses of the Chinese vaccine will be reaching Pakistan in the next week followed by continued supply. (com.pk)
  • Matovic said his country will get 1 million shots in the next two months while another million will arrive in May and June. (apnews.com)
  • Slovakia is the second European Union country to use the vaccine, which hasn't been approved by the European Medicines Agency, after Hungary. (apnews.com)
  • China has already announced to provide 10 million doses of vaccines for COVAX for emergency use in developing countries, and China puts its words into action, Hua said, adding that the country is currently keeping close communication with the WHO on the matter. (helsinkitimes.fi)
  • Ocugen has been trying to sell 100 million doses of Covaxin in the country since March. (fool.com)
  • In addition, the agency procures and supplies around 600-800 million syringes for regular immunization programmes annually. (unicef.org)
  • In addition to the new vaccine doses, the U.S. will provide $23 million in American Rescue Plan and emergency funding through the Centers for Disease Control and the United States Agency for International Development to help Vietnam expand distribution and access to vaccines, combat the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future disease threats. (npr.org)
  • Gavi didn't provide financial terms, but has said the per-dose prices of vaccines for COVAX will eventually be made public. (kstp.com)
  • To efficiently provide limited doses to a diverse population of providers in a large urban setting, DOHMH developed an allocation plan that included hospitals, private care providers (including adult, pediatric, and obstetric practices), and other outpatient facilities (including federally qualified health centers, pharmacies, DOHMH walk-in immunization clinics, and NYC agencies with a medical unit). (cdc.gov)
  • First-dose clinics will be released via the MyTurn system . (noozhawk.com)
  • Covaxin has since received regulatory clearance in over 13 countries, with 300 million doses supplied to date. (fool.com)
  • A regulatory agency would have difficulty justifying legal action with these false positives. (cdc.gov)
  • Millions of individuals consume substances such as artificial sweeteners daily that are declared safe by regulatory agencies without evaluation of their potential heritable effects. (bvsalud.org)