Could It Be Another Mess Up

[teacake44]

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.

[Sunk]

The trials were against a very tight deadline, so they tested the minimum time. They haven’t been even been able to test the maximum deadline, so anything about that is just conjecture.
The Government extended the gap between the 1st and 2nd jab, and it has turned out to be a fortunous guess.

The gap does not have to be 2 weeks, it can be longer.

To cut a long story short, whacking in as many possible millions of jabs in, as quickly as possible is the best option. Following up with the second jab at a later date is a very minus bonus. As little as 4% over the the entire course.

[woofgang]

Sunk I don't think it was a guess that drove the decision. As the Pfizer scientist said they (the UK scientific advisors) did a risk benefit analysis based on the facts they had and the ?suspicion ?expectation that annual vaccination would be needed for at least the most vulnerable section of the population.
As I have said before there seem to be three possible outcomes, given that the safety of the vaccination is a given.
1. the lengthened gap makes no difference so ok
2. the lengthened gap actually makes the vaccine work better, cheers all round
3. the lengthened gap makes the second vaccine act like a first vaccine, people continue to get most of the protection that they would have had and more people are protected.

I mean even if you just look at the possible outcomes with non scientific eyes, you can see that there are two good outcomes, one less good and none disastrous. It looks like a bit of a no brainer.

[bobbinwales]

//could it be another mess up//.
No. Not this time. You seem to be looking for problems that arn't there with vaccinnes and misinterpreting things ???