Posted on 04/09/2021 12:10:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
France on Friday said under 55s who received a first injection of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine should be given a jab from a different producer for their second dose, a ruling affecting more than 500,000 people.
Officials in France initially said that those given the AstraZeneca jab in a first dose should go ahead with the second jab.
But the HAS said that those aged under 55 who had been given the AstraZeneca as their first dose would now get the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as their second course.
France has been injecting health workers as a priority group meaning that many younger people have already received the AstraZeneca jab.
They include Health Minister Olivier Véran, a neurologist aged 41, who was given the AstraZeneca vaccine live on television on February 8.
"It is completely consistent to say that we do not recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine to people under 55 years of age while we learn more," the minister told RTL.
"Therefore, if you have received a first injection and are under 55 years old, you will be offered another vaccine 12 weeks after the first injection."
Europe's medicines regulator said this week the AstraZeneca vaccine could cause very rare blood clots among some recipients, prompting several countries to scale up restrictions on the jab.
"Based on previous studies which combine different vaccine types, a combination of the AZ and Pfizer vaccines is likely to be safe but it's important that this is tested in the context of a clinical vaccine trial," said Helen Fletcher, professor of Immunology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The WHO currently recommends the same product be used for both doses but has said further research should be carried out on the interchangeability of vaccines in so-called "mix and match" strategies.
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PING mix and match vaccines oh my!
- I wonder how compromised Johnson and Johnson is not just because of the potential AstraZeneca contamination but because of sharing the same viral vector format.
Mix and match. No problem.
hmmm
Probably getting the 2nd dose from Germany.
@DIRTYSECRET
- England is advising the same.
- France is also offering Moderna, which is an American company.
Actually Moderna is an American company with a French CEO.
But again, England is advising the same (albeit not the mix and match thing)...And they have staked a LOT on the Oxford/Astra jab. Sweden also contributed to the development of said vaccine, and they too have halted its indiscriminate use.
Man, talk about human experimentation.
Mix and match, indeed. What could possibly go wrong?
Of course, the second could be Gates’ and Fauci’s Moderna vax. Imagine the odds of that, huh.
What about those over 55? They’ll die soon enough so who cares.
The dirty little secret is that Gates and Fauci presented their mRNA-1273 vax in Oct. 2019 at the Gates Foundation’s Event 201. Oct. 2019 was before anyone outside that Chinese lab ever heard of Covid-19. Gates couldn’t even be bothered to change the name. It’s the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine being jabbed today.
Which came first, the virus or the vaccine?
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