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The United States hopes to begin the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 before mid-December, after receiving approval from the health authorities..
Up to 20 million people could be vaccinated before the end of the year, if all goes according to plan.
„Our plan is to be able to transport vaccines to vaccination sites within 24 hours of approval, so I hope it will be maybe the day after approval, December 11-12.Moncef Slaoui, a senior official in the government’s vaccination operation, was cited by Le Figaro on Sunday.
Moncef Slaoui was asked about the expected date for the first vaccinations in the United States.
Immunologist Anthony Fauci is also very confident and said that “We may have 20 million people who can be vaccinated by the end of December, if the vaccine gets permission from the authorities.”
Moncef Slaoui also said that he hopes that with the launch of a mass vaccination campaign, the country will obtain “herd immunity” in May. “Normally, with the level of efficiency that we have (95%), the immunization of 70% or almost of the population would allow us to have a real herd immunity. It will probably happen in May or something like that. “ specific.
Barely ten months after the appearance of the new coronavirus, the US pharmaceutical group Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech requested this Friday from the US Agency for Medicines (FDA) the authorization of the vaccine against Covid-19.
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