The next dose of vaccine is not given after the prescribed 3-4 weeks.

The number of coronavirus vaccines in Britain has reached one million, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Friday, confirming that the British vaccination campaign is moving towards a new schedule so that as many people as possible can receive the first dose as soon as possible.

Hancock also emphasized in a post posted on Twitter that the vaccination campaign will accelerate further from Monday as the vaccine jointly developed by the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical plant AstraZeneca begins to be used massively.

“We are starting the New Year knowing that more beautiful days await us,” said the minister.

The UK vaccination campaign began on December 8 with a vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.

The British Medicines Authority (MHRA) also licensed the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday and the UK government announced on the same day that the vaccine will be available in the UK on January 4.

Two doses of the vaccines approved so far must be administered.

However, on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) together with the UK government, the UK government shifted the focus from giving the second dose as soon as possible to getting the first dose as soon as possible, especially from the most vulnerable. to rapidly develop protection against serious diseases caused by coronavirus infection.

Consequently, instead of the time difference from the previous three weeks, the first dose can be followed by the second dose within 12 weeks.

Chris Whitty of England, Michael McBride of Northern Ireland, Gregor Smith of Scotland and Frank Atherton of Wales and Deputy Chief of Staff Jonathan Van-Tam of England said in a joint resolution on Friday presented by the Department of Health that the second dose of vaccine is probably very important for protection. however, in the short term there is a good chance that the efficacy of the vaccine will only be moderately increased; initial protection against disease is largely achieved after the first dose.

According to the chief doctors, it is obviously more beneficial from a public health point of view to be able to vaccinate twice as many people in the next two to three months, shifting the focus to the first dose as soon as possible, concentrating on the two doses as soon as possible. possible. , and in your case, there is only a small increase in protection after the second dose.

According to the call, for every thousand people who receive both doses in rapid succession, there will be a thousand more who will not receive any protection, and if they can receive the first dose first, they can have a significant initial protection of at least 70 percent.



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