12 weeks apart between two doses of vaccine? Vaccination programmes in the UK have been called into question

The British Medical Association said Wednesday that it has wrote to Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, calling on the British government to change its vaccination program to reduce the maximum time between two doses of Pfizer to six weeks from the current 12 weeks.
british physicians said in a statement the same day that they had wrote to Whitty, the need for an "urgent review" of the UK vaccination programme.
statement that the interval between two doses of the vaccine of more than six weeks was "not in line with WHO guidelines" and that "no other country has a 12-week interval" like the UK.
" in addition, members of the Physicians Association are concerned that the availability of vaccines is unpredictable and does not guarantee that people will wait 12 weeks for a second dose of Pfizer's vaccine.
" UK government is using two new crown vaccines, one developed jointly by Pfizer Inc. of the United States and German Biotech, and the other by AstraZenecon Pharmaceuticals Inc. of the United Kingdom and Oxford University of the United Kingdom.
third new crown vaccine approved by the U.K. is developed for the U.S. company Modner and won't be available until this spring.
new crown outbreak prevention and control situation in the United Kingdom is serious.
Against the backdrop of a run on medical resources, the British government wanted to vaccinate more people with the first dose, so it was proposed shortly after the start of the vaccination programme that the maximum interval between the two doses currently in use was 12 weeks.
Department of Health and Social Care said the government had set a 12-week time limit after a comprehensive analysis of initial vaccination data and advice from chief medical officers in four uk regions.
of the protective effects of vaccines come from the first dose, " Mr. Whitty explained at a news conference Tuesday.
Pfizer and Biotech recommend a 21-day vaccination interval.
previously warned that there was "no evidence that the vaccine can still be protected if a second dose is given after three weeks".
assali has no objection to the UK government's arrangements.
the British pharmaceutical company said the data showed that the company's two doses of the vaccine were 8 to 12 weeks apart and did not affect the effectiveness of the vaccine.
uk reported in December that it had detected a new coronavirus, which it said had accelerated the spread of the virus in parts of the UK.
The British government released data on the 22nd, the country's cumulative new crown confirmed cases close to 3.6 million, the world's fifth highest, the highest in Europe;
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said tuesday that about 5.4 million people in the United Kingdom have been vaccinated against the first dose of the new crown vaccine.
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