not available until spring https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55586410?fbclid=IwAR3MS7aEQM4m9xdlImdlx5xIKt-8vqM1QYD_xHETbOmeopLDPUo5W4aaFsE
But will North East pensioners accept it? Some have already said they don't want the Pfizer one as it's from them Jormans, and they want the "English one" from AstraZeneca instead
Brilliant news and a testament to the amazing people working on these that there are 3 approved in such a short space of time.
All good news. My issue is that already our government are going against expert advice in the timescales of the second doses. Is this another political decision to deal with numbers given the vaccinations rather than following the guidelines of between 21 and a maximum of 28 days between the first and second doses?
Why go against the advice of when the doses are given in order to boost the numbers vaccinated? If the people who created the vaccines say that the doses should be given between 21 and 28 days apart, then that is what should be happening.
Haven’t got my head around this one when we vaccinated all the farms if you didn’t do the 2nd dose inside the right timescale you might as well of not done the first one because they inter lock as the final booster.
Exactly.. An expert in vaccinations from WHO said much the same thing.. That is why I'm suspicious about the government's motives. Do they just want to say they have met their targets regarding numbers?
Not the expert from the World Health Organisation that I listened to. He said without the second jab within the timescale the vaccine is nowhere near as effective and has not even been tested in this way.
Th claim is if you give one vaccine you get about 70% of the benefit that you would get with both vaccines given. The Government say if they can vaccinate twice as many people first that is better for the population as a whole. It's better to have twice the population with 70% efficacy than half of the population with 95% efficacy. If you remember with the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine tests they achieved 70% efficacy after one full dose then gave a second injection of half a dose and achieved 90%+ efficacy.
That is the claim, which in itself reduces the effectiveness by around 25%, but as the WHO vaccine stated, it has never been tested in this way to any extent, so just guess work by our government.
Pretty sure the annual flu vaccine gives around 60 to 70% effectiveness, maybe thats part of their thinking as well?
I'm sure I read somewhere that a longer gap between the 1st and 2nd administering of the Oxford vaccine actually improved its effectiveness.
