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.
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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
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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.
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Israel's COVID-19 vaccination programme, officially named "Give a Shoulder" (Hebrew: לתת כתף), began on 19 December 2020, and has been praised for its speed, having given twenty percent of the Israeli population the first dose of the vaccines' two dose regimen in the span of three weeks.
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Israel's COVID-19 vaccination programme, officially named "Give a Shoulder" (Hebrew: לתת כתף), began on 19 December 2020, and has been praised for its speed, having given twenty percent of the Israeli population the first dose of the vaccines' two dose regimen in the span of three weeks.
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According to a September 2021 study published in The Lancet, COVID-19 vaccination in Israel 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.
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