Table 3. COVID-19 vaccination facilities in major countries.
| Country | Vaccination facilities | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | • Hospitals | |
| • Large outpatient clinics | ||
| • Public health clinics | ||
| • Mobile units | ||
| • Clinics and doctors' offices | ||
| • Pharmacies and some grocery-store chains | ||
| • Long-term-care facilities | ||
| • Certain federally-run sites | ||
| • Pfizer's may preclude some sites36 | ||
| United Kingdom | People will be vaccinated at three main locations: | |
| • Vaccination centers and large-scale venues such as football stadiums, accessed by a national booking service | ||
| • Hospital hubs, using NHS Trusts across the country | ||
| • Local vaccination services, made up of sites led by general practice teams working together in already established primary care networks and pharmacy teams through community pharmacies37 | ||
| Germany | • A COVID-19 vaccine is initially distributed via vaccination centers set up by the federal states (hospitals or inpatient care facilities). Furthermore, there will be mobile vaccination teams that visit38 | |
| Australia | • 30–50 ongoing hospital hubs in urban and rural Australia | |
| • Hub locations to be finalized in conjunction with the States and Territories (will manage cold chain storage and administer Pfizer vaccine only)39 | ||
| Canada | • Every province is responsible for their own vaccine rollout plan.40,41 (Ex: Immunization clinics are being organized in 172 communities in British Columbia and will be overseen by local health authority. The clinics will be held at large centres including school gymnasiums, arenas, convention halls, community halls.) | |
| • Persons in Ontario will be vaccinated in the 17 hospital sites, in addition to UHN and The Ottawa Hospital | ||
| France | During phase 142 | |
| • The vaccines will be delivered to 100 hospitals that are able to store the vaccines at −80°C | ||
| Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia has set up large vaccination centers to inoculate residents against COVID-19, as part of its vaccination campaign launched in mid-December, 2020.43 | |
| Israel/Ministry of Health | • 196 immunization stations that will be open by the end of December, 2020 | |
| • 12 united established vaccination centers | ||
| • Hospitals will be vaccinating the population44 | ||
COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019.