12/28/20
Officials at University of Iowa Health care are participating in a trial for a new COVID-19 vaccine.
The Hospitals and Clinics were a trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine earlier this year; the new vaccine comes from Novavax.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that the Novavax vaccine is much more like a traditional vaccine, using technology that developed the current flu vaccines. It will also require two doses, three weeks apart like the Pfizer vaccine.
The UIHC will be recruiting about 250 participants for the trial, aged 18 and older. UIHC Executive Dean Patricia Winokur told the Gazette that researchers are specifically interested in recruiting people at high risk for severe COVID-19 infection, underrepresented populations, and front-line workers.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Have Arrived in Iowa, Immunizations Underway
At 9:20 a.m. this morning, CNN reports a woman named Sandra Lindsay received a COVID-19 vaccine on live video from the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York City. An ICU nurse, Lindsay is one of the first known people to have received the vaccination. I m also happy to report the vaccines have begun to be administered in the state of Iowa.
Both the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City and UnityPoint Health in Des Moines received their first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine Monday morning and have begun immunizations.
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