Launching COVID-19 vaccination in Saudi Arabia: Lessons learned, and the way forward

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2) emerged in Wuhan City, China. The SARS-CoV-2 crossed borders and quickly transformed into a “Public health emergency of international concern”. Countries around the globe are in the race to achieve herd immunity. We describe the steps...

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Autores principales: Assiri, Abdullah, Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Alkhalifa, Monira, Al Duhailan, Hessa, Al Qahtani, Sara, Dawas, Reema Abu, El Seoudi, Abdul Aziz, Alomran, Najd, Omar, Omar Abu, Alotaibi, Nawaf, Almudarra, Sami S., Alabdulkarim, Khalid, Alqahtani, Saleh, Jokhdar, Hani
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34133965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102119
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author Assiri, Abdullah
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.
Alkhalifa, Monira
Al Duhailan, Hessa
Al Qahtani, Sara
Dawas, Reema Abu
El Seoudi, Abdul Aziz
Alomran, Najd
Omar, Omar Abu
Alotaibi, Nawaf
Almudarra, Sami S.
Alabdulkarim, Khalid
Alqahtani, Saleh
Jokhdar, Hani
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Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.
Alkhalifa, Monira
Al Duhailan, Hessa
Al Qahtani, Sara
Dawas, Reema Abu
El Seoudi, Abdul Aziz
Alomran, Najd
Omar, Omar Abu
Alotaibi, Nawaf
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spelling pubmed-81976792021-06-15 Launching COVID-19 vaccination in Saudi Arabia: Lessons learned, and the way forward Assiri, Abdullah Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. Alkhalifa, Monira Al Duhailan, Hessa Al Qahtani, Sara Dawas, Reema Abu El Seoudi, Abdul Aziz Alomran, Najd Omar, Omar Abu Alotaibi, Nawaf Almudarra, Sami S. Alabdulkarim, Khalid Alqahtani, Saleh Jokhdar, Hani Travel Med Infect Dis Commentary The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2) emerged in Wuhan City, China. The SARS-CoV-2 crossed borders and quickly transformed into a “Public health emergency of international concern”. Countries around the globe are in the race to achieve herd immunity. We describe the steps taken by Saudi Arabia to achieve this goal. Elsevier Ltd. 2021 2021-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8197679/ /pubmed/34133965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102119 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Assiri, Abdullah
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.
Alkhalifa, Monira
Al Duhailan, Hessa
Al Qahtani, Sara
Dawas, Reema Abu
El Seoudi, Abdul Aziz
Alomran, Najd
Omar, Omar Abu
Alotaibi, Nawaf
Almudarra, Sami S.
Alabdulkarim, Khalid
Alqahtani, Saleh
Jokhdar, Hani
Launching COVID-19 vaccination in Saudi Arabia: Lessons learned, and the way forward
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title_full_unstemmed Launching COVID-19 vaccination in Saudi Arabia: Lessons learned, and the way forward
title_short Launching COVID-19 vaccination in Saudi Arabia: Lessons learned, and the way forward
title_sort launching covid-19 vaccination in saudi arabia: lessons learned, and the way forward
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34133965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102119
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