When on a winning streak, you should make the most of it. And the British Government has hit the jackpot (again) with its Covid vaccination policy.
The Lancet has just published a study of 9,000 healthcare workers conducted by the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel (the country is the front runner in the global vaccination race). The study showed that just a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine had reduced the number of people developing symptomatic Covid-19 infection by 85 per cent.
This appears to vindicate our Government s controversial decision in the New Year to break with Pfizer s own recommendation that those who received a first jab should get a follow-up one three weeks later. Instead, it decided to maximise the numbers getting a first dose by delaying the second one until 12 weeks later.
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