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COVID-19: Second dose of COVID vaccines to be given later after guidelines change
SKY News ^ | December 30, 2020

Posted on 12/30/2020 4:23:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The second dose of the coronavirus vaccines will be given later than originally planned, experts have said.

The move is to ensure more people are given a first dose to help fight the UK's rising coronavirus infection rate, with the second dose administered up to three months later.

Speaking at a briefing at Downing Street today, Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the Joint Committee of Vaccinations and Immunisations, said the "immediate urgency" was for the rapid rollout of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and to ensure high levels of uptake.

"We recommend delivery of the first vaccine should be prioritised for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, chair of the Commission on Human Medicine Expert Working Group which looked into the efficacy and safety of the new vaccine, said it was 80% effective three months after the first dose.

He added: "We examined the half-dose regime but we felt that the results were not borne out by the full analysis."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; vaccine; virus
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1 posted on 12/30/2020 4:23:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve read that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has shown some promise, possibly that it is not going to cause adverse reactions and is highly effective (100% they are saying).

Once it is actually “rolled out”, we’ll see whether that is indeed the case.

As for me, unless the Lord shows me otherwise, I will not be taking any of these COVID vaccines for various reasons.


2 posted on 12/30/2020 4:30:40 AM PST by Patriot777 ("When you see these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Poor planning, and now they have to deviate from the established dosing of the clinical studies. They are winging it.


3 posted on 12/30/2020 4:30:57 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

my first thought also

they are making stuff up as they go along


4 posted on 12/30/2020 4:33:29 AM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Guidelines change? Goalposts change? Parameters change? C’mon man.

“In what follows, it will often be necessary to consider infinitesimal changes in the parameters specifying the state of a system.”

https://www.britannica.com/science/thermodynamics/Thermodynamic-properties-and-relations


5 posted on 12/30/2020 4:45:45 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a flustercuck. Good Lord the mess just multiplies.


6 posted on 12/30/2020 4:48:45 AM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So they will have a cou try full of incompletely vaccinated instead of a somewhat smaller group that is actually protected. What could go wrong? And of course the vaccine makers will be blamed


7 posted on 12/30/2020 4:49:22 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Patriot777

I would not go anywhere near the astra zeneca vaccine. This is the vaccine where they dosed the phase one trial wrong


8 posted on 12/30/2020 4:50:34 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: PGalt

“Stemming from this fact we find that the most probable state for any natural system is one of disorder. All natural systems degenerate when left to themselves.”


9 posted on 12/30/2020 4:50:44 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1-nkqwmjI

HOORAY Victoria Stodden


10 posted on 12/30/2020 4:52:41 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Mom MD

“I would not go anywhere near the astra zeneca vaccine.”

Smart Mom Doc.

I have former “friends” at Zoetis...Pfizer’s animal vaccine spinoff. (They recently opened up another facility in CHYna.) If they were on my porch wanting to come into my house to administer my jab to promote my “health”...I would not hesitate to blow their f’n heads off. That’s all that I will say about that at this time.


11 posted on 12/30/2020 4:59:58 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

Just the astra zeneca vaccine. I have had the Pfizer vaccine and will get my second one in a week or so


12 posted on 12/30/2020 5:07:05 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

I read something that said that eventually those who got the MRNA vaccines will need a booster of the more conventional variants, or exposure to actual covid within the protection period, to get a longer lasting immunity. Something about T-Cells.


13 posted on 12/30/2020 5:21:04 AM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Patriot777
Ditto, I won't be participating in the experiment. Someone's got to be around and unaffected. I believe there is a non-zero chance our medical system will be overwhelmed in the next few years - not with COVID-XX patients, but with people suffering from various long-term side effects from the vaccines that were rushed out.

Who knows, maybe this is intentional and their final excuse to nationalize healthcare. I just know I don't want to play. It appears people in my demographic have a better than 99.98% survival rate. Given that I do a few other risky things such as riding a motorcycle I'll take those odds. I ride a motorcycle because I enjoy it and to me the rewards are worth the risks. I'll not take the vaccine because not having to worry about side effects or ulterior motives gives me far more peace of mind than worrying about a less than 0.02% chance something bad may happen.

14 posted on 12/30/2020 5:29:13 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Thunder90

I have not heard that I suspect this may need a periodic booster no matter what vaccine you get


15 posted on 12/30/2020 5:42:20 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD

Best to you.


16 posted on 12/30/2020 5:54:06 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

Thank you. best to you as well


17 posted on 12/30/2020 5:56:38 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The lady in the picture could be really hot, but with the muzzle on I can’t tell whether she’s happy or mad or somewhere in between. I had an X like that.

But on the vaccine, I’m not fundamentally against them, but any time the MAN is urging, pushing me to do something ‘for my own good’, I get a little hesitant.

In my future imaginary world, most young men have been made sterile by these concoctions, and the few brave souls like myself are called upon to save the human race.

Dibs on Kate Upton.


18 posted on 12/30/2020 5:58:56 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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Bob 1st person Dole likes Pfizer. It makes him stiff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMeulTWdqiY

He has courage. $


19 posted on 12/30/2020 6:04:31 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So you vill haff to stay locked down longer, I tink!


20 posted on 12/30/2020 6:11:50 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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