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Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Delaying second Covid vaccine doses can save lives, study finds

Modelling suggests countries struggling to immunise populations could adopt UK strategy

Delaying the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines as the UK has done can save lives, according to a US modelling study that suggests other countries struggling to immunise their populations could adopt the strategy.

Second shots of both vaccines and the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab are designed by the manufacturers to be given within three to four weeks of the first dose. The UK, however, opted for a 12-week delay between doses in a bid to ensure that more people received their first vaccination more quickly.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2RhedgL

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