MDA completes campaign to vaccinate nursing homes across Israel

• Date: 07 January 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 07 January 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The national health service announced that it had administered first doses of the Pfizer vaccine to the entirety of the elderly population situated in its territory, all within the past ten days.

The second round of vaccinations are intended to roll out into these elderly communities next week. The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses to reach the advertised efficacy, as the company has said directly it does not know if just one shot of the vaccine will defend against the coronavirus.

MDA reports that it had given the first dose to around 150,000 nursing home and sheltered residents in total, across Israel. This initiative is a part of the Health Ministry's Avot v'Imahot (Fathers and Mothers Shield) program, which...