COVID 19 Vaccine Related Quiz

COVID 19 Vaccines Rationales

1. The Russian health ministry registered the first vaccine against covid 19 on 11 November 2020.

2. Gam-COVID-Vac, trade named as Sputnik V, developed by the Gameliya research institute of epidemiology and microbiology along with the Russian ministry of health is the first covid vaccine in the world

3. The first vaccine authorized in the United States was developed by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech.

4. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been shown to be 95 percent effective in randomized trials.
Moderna vaccine – 94.1%, Sputnik v- 91.4%.

5. Sputnik V, the Moderna, and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines require two shots: a priming dose, followed by a booster shot.

6. The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days.
Sputnik v- 21 days.

7. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of the vaccine.
Moderna went with a much larger dose of vaccine, 100 micrograms

8. No studies aimed at proving the effectiveness of the above mentioned covid vaccines in pregnancy and lactation to date.

9. The Sputnik V vaccine can be formulated as frozen (storage temperature is −18 °C (0 °F)) and freeze-dried (“Gam-COVID-Vac-Lyo”, storage temperature is 2–8 °C (36–46 °F)) Moderna’s must be shipped at -4 Fahrenheit;
Pfizer’s must be shipped and stored at -94 Fahrenheit.

10. After thawing, a vial of the Pfizer vaccine must be used within five days;
Moderna’s is stable at fridge temperature for 30 days and at room temperature for 12 hours.

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13. According to the CDC the minimum age requirement for covid vaccination is 16 years.

14. The Pfizer vaccine is the first vaccine using messenger RNA technology ever approved for human use by the Food and Drug Administration.
It uses a synthesized scrap of genetic information that is wrapped in a protective fat layer to keep it from disintegrating.
When it goes into cells in the muscle of the upper arm, it contains molecular instructions that tell cells to create a protein that triggers an immune response to the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus.
This means the immune system will be prepared to eliminate the pathogen if it tries to invade

15. Gam-COVID-Vac is a viral two-vector vaccine based on two human adenoviruses — a common cold virus — containing the gene that encodes the spike protein (S) of SARS-CoV-2 to stimulate an immune response.