Israel's COVID-19 vaccination program, officially titled Give a Shoulder, began on December 19, 2020, using the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. The campaign achieved unusually rapid distribution, with about twenty percent of the population receiving a first dose within three weeks of launch, a pace credited to coordinated vaccination drives by Israel's health authorities that drew on the country's existing personal health databases. By June 26, 2021, roughly sixty-four percent of eligible Israelis had received at least one dose.
Facts
Measured Resultsprevented an additional 158,665 infections, 24,597 hospitalisations, 17,432 severe or critical hospitalisations, and 5,532 deaths from December 20, 2020 to April 10, 2021 1 Classification
Program KindVaccination or Immunization Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Israel, found in there.
Sources
1. COVID-19 vaccination in Israel, Wikipedia
Effectiveness section, Lancet study
prevented an additional 158,665 infections, 24,597 hospitalisations, 17,432 severe or critical hospitalisations, and 5,532 deaths from December 20, 2020, to April 10, 2021.
Program classification, entity description sentence
Israel's COVID-19 vaccination program, officially titled Give a Shoulder, began on December 19, 2020, using the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
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