A new COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial is starting in Colorado.
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus are recruiting potential study participants for the COVID-19 investigational vaccine clinical trial. This is the third COVID-19 vaccine trial underway at UCHealth locations.
The recruitment period will run about two months at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital which is the only hospital in Colorado participating in this clinical trial.
The investigational vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, which contains a protein antigen and the companyâs Matrix-M adjuvant, is being evaluated in a phase 3 clinical trial sponsored by Novavax and supported by the National Institutes of Health.Â
UCHealth Provides COVID-19 Vaccines to People 70 and Older and Health Care Workers
UCHealth Provides COVID-19 Vaccines to People 70 and Older and Health Care Workers
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A health care worker receiving her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins on Wednesday, January 6. Photo courtesy of UCHealth.
UCHealth has now provided the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to over 32,000 people and second doses to an additional 1,000 health care workers.
Vaccines began being offered to people age 70 and older by UCHealth last week and continues to vaccinate those in this group as timely and safely as possible. UCHealth began vaccinating health care providers on Monday, December 14, starting with physicians and staff members who have been providing the most frequent and direct care for patients with COVID-19.
UCHealth and Banner Health have begun to administer COVID-19 vaccine doses to people 70 years old and older as doses are available.
UCHealth has administered initial doses to more than 32,000 people and second doses to an additional 1,000 health-care workers. It began offering vaccines to people 70 and older, who are included in the state’s phase 1 distribution plan for the vaccine.
A health-care worker receives a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine this week within the UCHealth system. Courtesy UCHealth
Banner began administering second doses to health-care workers Thursday and has distributed 35,000 doses across the Banner system so far. Banner has operations in multiple states. Vaccines for people 70 years and older are administered as they are available, according to Sara Quale, spokeswoman for Banner in Northern Colorado.
A photo of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial. (Courtesy Photo / UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center)
Coronavirus vaccines have arrived and they’re highly effective in protecting people from COVID-19. Vaccine experts at UCHealth answer some of the most commonly asked questions.
What is a vaccine?
Vaccines train the body’s immune system to recognize and attack pathogens. Vaccines give the body a sneak peek of one or more key features of a virus before the actual virus barges in. The immune system then develops a “memory” of a virus and can fight it the next time the virus tries to invade. Once you are protected, you have what are known as antibodies.
Health leaders learned from surprises in first round of vaccines
We re into the second week of COVID vaccinations. UC Health spoke with us about what worked and what the unexpected challenges were of the first few days. Author: Steve Staeger Updated: 9:37 PM MST December 21, 2020
DENVER As healthcare providers and county health leaders prepare for the second week of COVID-19 vaccinations in Colorado, we asked some to reflect on unexpected challenges and other surprises during the first week shots were available in the state.
The first vaccines are reserved for healthcare workers and residents in long-term care facilities. During the first week, Colorado was able to offer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, in mid-December.