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Could It Be Another Mess Up
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By Boris, yet again. Pointless vaccinating 15 million if the jobs not done how it should be.The chief executive of Biontech has told sky news that the second dose should only be stretched to 42 days. The data still keeps coming, all be it slowly, but at last some one has spoken out about the UK governments decision to ignore the guide lines for giving the vaccine.
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from the sky article
"Prof Sahin acknowledged governments have difficult decisions to make with limited supplies of the vaccine, but he added that there needs to be recognition of the limited protection provided by just one dose.
"There is a lot of discussion and there are some pros and some cons," he said.
"The pros are very clear - by immunising more people we could get benefit to more people.
"But we need to be also aware that we will only get partial benefit to more people.
"So at the end of the day it is a risk-benefit assessment from governmental bodies whether the benefit by reaching more people is sacrificed by giving less protection to the vaccinated people."
"Back in December, the UK's chief medical officers backed the change in guidance that said second doses should be given up to 12 weeks after an initial dose to maximise the number of people being vaccinated.
In a statement, they said: "In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable in public health terms than one where we vaccinate half the number but with only slightly greater protection."
sounds like they are in violent agreement to me.
Prof Sahin says that he has no data to back up his belief
""But I wouldn't delay that further. As a scientist I believe that it is not good to go longer than six weeks."
he is only saying what Pfizer reps have said before "we have no data" "we cannot recommend"
only this time he has accepted that its a matter for risk benefit analysis and not a hard and fast fact.
look teacake....have the vaccine...don't have the vaccine.....but do try and stick to the facts.
"Prof Sahin acknowledged governments have difficult decisions to make with limited supplies of the vaccine, but he added that there needs to be recognition of the limited protection provided by just one dose.
"There is a lot of discussion and there are some pros and some cons," he said.
"The pros are very clear - by immunising more people we could get benefit to more people.
"But we need to be also aware that we will only get partial benefit to more people.
"So at the end of the day it is a risk-benefit assessment from governmental bodies whether the benefit by reaching more people is sacrificed by giving less protection to the vaccinated people."
"Back in December, the UK's chief medical officers backed the change in guidance that said second doses should be given up to 12 weeks after an initial dose to maximise the number of people being vaccinated.
In a statement, they said: "In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable in public health terms than one where we vaccinate half the number but with only slightly greater protection."
sounds like they are in violent agreement to me.
Prof Sahin says that he has no data to back up his belief
""But I wouldn't delay that further. As a scientist I believe that it is not good to go longer than six weeks."
he is only saying what Pfizer reps have said before "we have no data" "we cannot recommend"
only this time he has accepted that its a matter for risk benefit analysis and not a hard and fast fact.
look teacake....have the vaccine...don't have the vaccine.....but do try and stick to the facts.
