Israel received 100,000 moderns vaccines last month, enough to inoculate 50,000 people. A health ministry spokesman said most of them were still stored in the pharmaceutical industry’s logistics unit near Ben-Gurion Airport.
Despite the relatively small number of modern vaccines here, the reason behind not starting is purely logistical, the spokesperson said. Jerusalem Post.
For starters, while both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two doses, while the second shot of Pfizer is given 21 days after the first and 28 days after Moderna – this is a difference that will add to the level of confusion in the health fund-run distribution campaign.
Moreover, vaccines need to be stored at different temperatures. Pfizer vaccines must be kept around minus -70 degrees Celsius, while Moderna requires minus -30 degrees.
Finally, the vaccines are dosed differently, and the number of doses in each vial is different.
Each Pfizer dose is 0.3 ml and contains 30 micrograms of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, while Moderna has a 0.5-ml. Dose of 100 micrograms of vaccine. Each bottle of Pfizer has six doses, while each bottle of Modern has 10 doses.
Originally, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the modern vaccine would be used to endocrine Israel’s homebound community. However, the health ministry said this also proved to be very complicated.
For now, Majen David Adom and other emergency response teams are bringing these homebound individuals to health-funded vaccination centers by ambulance and then returning them home.
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Earlier this month, Israel transferred 2,000 doses of the modern vaccine to the Palestinian Authority for use by its medical teams. According to the report, a total of 20,000 vaccines will be transferred in three more shipments.
The spokesman said the health ministry had asked the U.S. No final decision has been made on how the remaining vaccine will be transported from the company. Post
Israel ordered six million modern vaccines, enough to vaccinate three million people.
There are also 10 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on order.
The next large-scale modern delivery will arrive in Israel in March.
Over the weekend of receiving 10,000 doses of the holiday Sputnik Vine vaccine, Israel was pressured about its choice to seize the vaccines instead of transferring them to the PA.
An article published by Bloomberg accused Israel of “withholding its Moderna Inc. supply”, while “failing to bring millions of Palestinians under its control.”
IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General. Aviv Kochvi and Defense Minister Benny Gentz are expected to approve a request in the coming days for the transfer of thousands of vaccine doses to Gaja Patti, without mentioning which brand of vaccine, the Hebrew website Valla reported on Sunday.
Pfizer is committed to providing Israel with as many vaccinations as possible to its citizens in return for providing detailed data on the country’s vaccine rollout and its impact on infection rates.
So far, 8. million million Israelis have received at least the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and about 2.5 million. Millions of people have got their second dose.
