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UK Races Ahead With Vaccine, Whole World Waiting For Learnings UK Races Ahead With Vaccine, Whole World Waiting For Learnings Britain is ahead of most countries in the vaccination race, but it is gambling that it can extend the interval between two doses to stretch limited supplies.
Updated: January 27, 2021 11:32 am IST
As of Monday, almost 6.6 million people in the UK had gotten the first of two doses of a vaccine
London:
Britain is now, essentially, one big, high-stakes science experiment.
It is putting vaccines to the test amid one of the world s worst coronavirus outbreaks, propelled by a variant of the virus that is more contagious and possibly more deadly than the original.
UK doctors seek review of 12-week gap between vaccine doses
By Staff | Jan 24, 2021
A medical staff member prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
LONDON (AP) A major British doctors’ group says the U.K. government should “urgently review” its decision to give people a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine up to 12 weeks after the first, rather than the shorter gap recommended by the manufacturer and the World Health Organization.
The U.K., which has Europe’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, adopted the policy in order to give as many people as possible a first dose of vaccine quickly. So far almost 5.9 million people in Britain have received a shot of either a vaccine made by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech or one developed by U.K.-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University.