SA aims to immunise up to 500,000 health workers in J&J study, scientist says 11 February 2021 - 07:44 By Reuters SA aims to immunise between 350,000 and 500,000 health workers with Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine. File image Image: Claire Keeton
SA aims to immunise between 350,000 and 500,000 health workers with Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine in an “implementation study” to further evaluate the shot, the president of the Medical Research Council said.
Glenda Gray, co-lead investigator on the local leg of a J&J global trial, told Reuters that SA expected to get batches of around 80,000 doses every seven to 14 days for the study, once it is approved.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Our nation has reached a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic: over 400,000 Americans have died from complications of the coronavirus. Black Americans are 3.7 times as likely as white Americans to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and 2.8 times as likely to die.
Blacks and people of color are not inherently more susceptible to COVID-19 illness and mortality, however, existing structural racism contributes to the health disparities.
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