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COVID-19: Experts warn that global herd immunity may be impossible
A Berlin-based researcher from the Humbolt University, Dirk Brockmann, tells DW that the pandemic will occupy our minds for the next few years. The physicist of complex systems also believes that herd immunity may never be a global reality.
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Berlin has been urged by a team of pandemic researchers from Humbolt University and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research that delaying the second dose of the vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna past the current 28-day period could accelerate the process. They believe the move could also provide greater protection for the country s population that could result in “up to 10,000 or 15,000 fewer deaths” in Germany. The authors of the study also argue that delaying the secon
Germany urged to follow Britain’s vaccine strategy as regulators look set to approve AstraZeneca for over 65s
Germany is likely to change course on its recommendation not to give the AstraZeneca vaccine to over 65s, saying errors had been made
28 February 2021 • 8:25pm
Germany was under pressure to change its Covid vaccination strategy on Sunday after the country s top vaccine regulator acknowledged that advice against giving the AstraZeneca jab to over 65s had been flawed.
The announcement came as a term of German scientists called on the government to follow the UK in delaying second doses after a study showed it could save up to 15,000 lives.
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