[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

People vaccinated up to and including 9 April 2021

First dose: 32,010,244

Second dose: 6,991,310

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[Smithy]

I haven’t seen any articles anywhere, but does anyone know if you get a different vaccine if you’re under 30 and your first dose was AZ?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I haven’t seen any articles anywhere, but does anyone know if you get a different vaccine if you’re under 30 and your first dose was AZ?

If your first dose was AZ the second dose has to be AZ, Pfizer and Moderna are a completely different type of vaccine.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

Originally Posted by Smithy

I haven’t seen any articles anywhere, but does anyone know if you get a different vaccine if you’re under 30 and your first dose was AZ?

It’s in the headline

[Cherie]

Reuters) -Europe’s drug regulator said on Friday it is reviewing rare blood clots in four people in the United States who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2BW2FI

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Reuters) -Europe’s drug regulator said on Friday it is reviewing rare blood clots in four people in the United States who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.



https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2BW2FI

4 in a relatively short space of time ?


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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zizu

4 in a relatively short space of time ?


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They have been vaccinating in US with it since 1st March so many millions of jabs given I expect

[Cherie]

France will lengthen the period between the first and second shots of Covid-19 vaccines to six weeks from four weeks as of 14 April to accelerate the inoculation campaign, the country's health minister has said.

Although France's top health authority advised a six-week period between the two shots in January in order to stretch supplies, the government at the time said there was insufficient data on how well the vaccines performed with a longer interval.

France could safely do so now because it was vaccinating a younger age group, Olivier Veran said.

"(It) will allow us to vaccinate more quickly without reducing protection," the minister said in a newspaper interview.

France has approved use of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines.

Mr Veran also said that from tomorrow the AstraZeneca vaccine would be made available to all over-55s and not just those with serious pre-existing conditions

Rte.ie

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Cherie

They have been vaccinating in US with it since 1st March so many millions of jabs given I expect

Still only 4 or 5 weeks though


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[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

If your first dose was AZ the second dose has to be AZ, Pfizer and Moderna are a completely different type of vaccine.

I know but at the start of the vaccination process there was talk of them mixing and matching vaccines anyway

[bots]

I see the vaccine as a course of treatment ... 2 shots, and that should be the same vaccine, but i don't think its the end of the world if they are mixed either, just perhaps not ideal

i think they will mix and match them come the autumn if they go the booster route, because that will depend on which vaccines have been modified for new strains.

[Vanessa]

Mmm, I don't think they should mix the vaccines.
It could be dangerous.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Mmm, I don't think they should mix the vaccines.

It could be dangerous.

Agreed the idea just sounds horrendous given the vaccines are all so new and untested


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[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

I see the vaccine as a course of treatment ... 2 shots, and that should be the same vaccine, but i don't think its the end of the world if they are mixed either, just perhaps not ideal

i think they will mix and match them come the autumn if they go the booster route, because that will depend on which vaccines have been modified for new strains.

A booster would be it’s own standalone “mini-vaccination” rather than a continuation of the same course of vaccination though, so not really the same thing.

[bots]

Sure thats why i said 2 shot course ... just i don't think one vaccine competes against another, they won't cancel each other out so the person will just get broader spectrum protection. Exactly the same as would happen with a booster

[arista]

China to Mix and Match Vaccines

[Nicky91]

https://www.thelocal.de/20210411/15-...-gathers-pace/

Germany: 15% of germans immunized as vaccine rollout slowly gathers pace


some good news in terms of vaccinating over there now

[Zizu]

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[arista]

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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07.48am 13/4/22


40 cases of the SA variant found in London !!

LBC Radio



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[user104658]

Originally Posted by Zizu

07.48am 13/4/22


40 cases of the SA variant found in London !!

LBC Radio



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The very thing you’ve posted states that the variant doesn’t spread as easily as other, and that there were no recorded cases 2 weeks after 2nd vaccine dose. Also none of it even suggests the vaccines aren’t effective against the strain (that the strain is immune to the vaccine) just that it may be slightly less effective against that strain than others.

[AnnieK]

Vaccinations open to over 45s today.....on course for getting all adults done well before the end of summer.

[Nicky91]

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/0...azeneca-chaos/

Netherlands: MP's consider coronavirus vaccine strategy changes after the chaos caused by the flop AstraZeneca, we are going throw astrazeneca jabs in the garbage bin and going to buy other vaccines like Sputnik