France considers only one vaccine dose for people who had COVID
France s health advisory body has recommended that one shot provides sufficient protection, acting like a booster shot, for previously infected people.
By Rick NoackWashington Post
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Nurse Coralie Ferron prepares doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Le Cannet, southern France on Jan. 21. France’s highest health authority, the High Authority of Health, or HAS, recommended Friday Feb. 12, 2021, that people who have had COVID-19 receive only one dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus. AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File
PARIS – France is weighing whether to give people who have recovered from COVID-19 only one vaccine dose instead of two, a practice that if enacted here and followed by other countries could free up tens of millions of doses.
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Germany s stricter lockdown starts nationwide
In a special session on Tuesday, Berlin s government, the state Senate, decided that the rule would stay in place until the incidence rate keeps below 200 for seven consecutive days. The goal of everything we re doing is to reduce travel and contact, Finance Senator Matthias Kollatz told reporters after the session. The 15-kilometer rule, when the rate hits 200, aims to achieve a further reduction.
Berlin has exceeded the 200 figure before. And on Wednesday this week, it was 199.9, with higher tallies in many parts of the city. Berlin s three corona traffic lights one each for the incidence rate, the reproduction number, and ICU bed occupancy all hit red for the first time on Monday.
The new shipment of doses should give a shot in the arm to Germany's vaccination drive, which has faced criticism for being too slow and poorly supplied.
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