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The Health Ministry says it will take until January 19 for the country to administer 60,000 vaccinations a day, the benchmark laid out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Channel 12.
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Along with Fauci and Azar, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, as well as front-line NIH medical workers, will receive a dose of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine. The event will take place at the NIH in Bethesda, Md.
Fauci, who recently turned 80, has said would take the vaccine publicly as a way to build confidence. The U.S. needs at least 70 percent of the population to get vaccinated in order to stop the virus from being a threat.
ADVERTISEMENT I’m ready to go,” Fauci said on NBC’s Today on Friday. “I’m going to get vaccinated as soon as I can. I hope that’s going to be within the next few days to the early part of next week.”
A long-awaited shipment of 35,100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Oregon hospitals has been completed, the state announced Friday.
Public confirmation from the Oregon Health Authority came after days of waiting for new supplies to follow Oregon’s previous shipment of 4,875 doses of the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. The state began vaccinating hospital workers on Wednesday, putting it among the last to administer the vaccination. Friday’s shipment makes Oregon one of the last states to have its first full order completed.
As of Thursday, 685 healthcare workers in Oregon had been vaccinated, mostly in the Portland area. This new shipment will go to hospital workers and doctors in Oregon locations that had been waiting for the vaccine to arrive.
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