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the UK gov have only done the one dose so they vaccinate as many people as possible no other country has addopted this mehtod. it is like been prescribe medication for example take one tablet next in 2 hours time well would you then wait 12 hours to take it? i know i wouldn't there have all ready been concerns about the one shot single dose loosing its effectiveness waiting so long.
 
Matt Hancock on Marr this morning confirmed unequivocally that everyone would get the second Pfizer dose within 21 days of their first.

That’s what he said. Whether he meant it or whether it happens is another matter.
 
ColinUK said:
Matt Hancock on Marr this morning confirmed unequivocally that everyone would get the second Pfizer dose within 21 days of their first.

That’s what he said. Whether he meant it or whether it happens is another matter.
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I heard him confirming the current story: everyone (who receives a first dose of the Pfizer vaccine) will receive a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine within 12 weeks. (So rejecting the possibility that manufacturing delays might cause that to be problematic, and rejecting the (not improbable, in my opinion) idea that the government might delay the second dose again.)

(I suppose one of us could go back and listen to it again but personally I really don't want to. If he's changed the policy to 21 days that'll be very big news, regardless of whether he meant it or not.)
 
One thing that Marr forgot to ask (as all other journalists have) is whether we're planning to collect enough information to know how well the 12 week vs 21 day gap works. (For example, are a few places randomly giving some people the second dose after 21 days, or 6 weeks, and then following up to see how those work.)

And if not, why not, given that it's a stupidly obvious thing to want to find out, quite easy to do, and would be of benefit to the world. (If I understand correctly there's a decent number of experts who suspect longer than 21 days might well be even better than 21 days, and surely it would be wonderful to find that out, and we're uniquely well positioned to do that.)
 
Bruce Stephens said:
One thing that Marr forgot to ask (as all other journalists have) is whether we're planning to collect enough information to know how well the 12 week vs 21 day gap works. (For example, are a few places randomly giving some people the second dose after 21 days, or 6 weeks, and then following up to see how those work.)

And if not, why not, given that it's a stupidly obvious thing to want to find out, quite easy to do, and would be of benefit to the world. (If I understand correctly there's a decent number of experts who suspect longer than 21 days might well be even better than 21 days, and surely it would be wonderful to find that out, and we're uniquely well positioned to do that.)
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Israeli said that they’re doing precisely that analysis with their data.
 
ColinUK said:
Israeli said that they’re doing precisely that analysis with their data.
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I'm not sure they are. The warnings they gave recently were just about unexpectedly low protection of the first dose up to 21 days, and as far as I understand it they're intending to give everyone the two doses as recommended (21 days apart)?

(But maybe I'm misunderstanding. I know part of the arrangement giving them faster delivery involved them feeding back data to Pfizer, so perhaps they're also doing some more experimentation along those lines.)
 
ColinUK said:
Matt Hancock on Marr this morning confirmed unequivocally that everyone would get the second Pfizer dose within 21 days of their first.

That’s what he said. Whether he meant it or whether it happens is another matter.
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Well nobody has contacted my husband about this yet. He had his Pfizer one last week and given a date in three months for his second one. We shall see.
 
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