Vaccine Cards And Second-Dose Reminders Are Part Of Warp Speed’s Immunization Plan

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People getting the COVID-19 vaccine will receive a special vaccine card to record their doses, Operation Warp Speed officials say. Here, a Department of Health and Human Services employee holds a sample card.





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A military medical worker prepares to draw a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as part of Phase III clinical trials with AstraZeneca.





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A military medical worker prepares to draw a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as part of Phase III clinical trials with AstraZeneca.


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Once the vaccines are distributed, they will be administered in a variety of settings, from pharmacies and doctors’ offices to health clinics and special vaccination sites.

Perna said the federal operation is taking a «triple-canopy approach to make the vaccination process effective. «And we’re doing our best to capture everybody to ensure that they get their second dose, he added.

As Slaoui noted, other vaccines that are currently in the trial pipeline could do away with the two-dose requirement. He highlighted a Johnson & Johnson vaccine candidate, saying some 28,000 people have now been recruited for a Phase III trial.

«The breakthrough that we hope with this vaccine is that it’s a one-shot vaccine with very fast efficacy achieved, Slaoui said. If it’s successful as a single dose, he added, there would be «100% compliance, so to speak, since everybody will get one shot to get the full vaccination schedule.

Citing the need to ensure that the American public is confident that any vaccine that makes its way through the trial and testing process is safe and effective, Slaoui stated, «Vaccines are useless if they are not used to vaccinate people.

COVID-19 has now killed some 275,000 people in the U.S., with more than 14 million cases reported in the country, according to Johns Hopkins University.

News of several promising vaccines has been a rare source of optimism about the outbreak in the U.S., which is by far the worst-hit country in the world. Slaoui says he’s confident the U.S. will be able to carry out tens of millions of vaccinations between now and early 2021.

Between the middle of December and the end of February, Slaoui said, «We will have potentially immunized 100 million people, which is really more or less the size of the significant at-risk population, such as the elderly, front-line workers and people with health conditions that increase their risk.