When will other coronavirus vaccines in the pipeline come to N.J.?
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
She received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, the first to receive Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
But the Pfizer vaccine isn’t the only one in development, and there’s a good chance that as more vaccines become available to the general population, you may receive a different type.
There are several different vaccines in development.
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But the two vaccines that have gotten the most attention recently Pfizer and Moderna are both mRNA vaccines.
“They teach our cells how to make a protein or even just a piece of a protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies,” the CDC said. “That immune response, which produces antibodies, is what protects us from getting infected if the real virus enters our bodies.”
Sharon Otterman, The New York Times
Published: 16 Dec 2020 12:06 PM BdST
Updated: 16 Dec 2020 12:06 PM BdST Dr Michelle Chester holds a vial of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine before giving it to Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, at Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre in New Hyde Park, New York, US, Dec 14, 2020. REUTERS
The first shipment of the vaccine arrived at a loading dock in New York shortly after sunrise on Monday. The head pharmacist for one of Northwell Health’s hospitals, who had been tracking the package, opened the 63-pound box, packed in dry ice. He took out a single vial.
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COVID-19 Immunization Rollout Expands As Cities Work To Ease Skepticism
Distribution of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began this week.
Eduardo Muñoz
NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centers on Tuesday, inoculating thousands more healthcare workers in a mass immunization expected to reach the general public in the coming months.
Distribution of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began on Monday, three days after it won U.S. emergency-use authorization, opening a new front in the battle against a pandemic claiming more than 2,400 U.S. lives a day.
CAMDEN - Rosetta Oliver was the first to step into the room and expose her arm.
The injection site now covered with a bandage, Oliver smiled through her mask amid a chorus of applause.
And with that, the coronavirus vaccine had officially come to South Jersey.
Oliver, an associate clinical director at Cooper University Hospital, was the first person in the area to officially receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’m very excited about having the vaccination done,” Oliver said. “I can hopefully get to see my family who lives out of town.”
Cooper administered the first vaccinations of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday morning to 30 hospital employees. The vaccine was last week the first to receive emergency use approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Optimism As New Jersey Heath Care Workers Get State s First Vaccines View all 6
Maritza Beniquez, an emergency room nurse who works at the center of New Jersey’s COVID outbreak, celebrated her 56th birthday with a twist she became the first person in New Jersey to be given the COVID vaccine. I had to look to check to see if it went in. I didn’t feel it. There s no pain. I feel great, she said on Tuesday. “I’m happy that in another month and half, I won’t have to be afraid.”
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