On Dec. 16, 2020, BD (Becton, Dickinson) announced that it had received pandemic orders for needles and syringes totaling more than 1 billion injection devices to support global COVID-19 vaccination planning efforts.

Shipments were underway and more than 300 million injection devices had been delivered around the world to date, with the remaining orders to be delivered between by the end of 2021 to support vaccine administration.