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Twelve-week gap still best timing for AstraZeneca vaccinations – The New Daily
With the AstraZeneca jab, vaccine efficacy reached 82.4 per cent after a second dose in those with a dosing interval of 12 weeks or more.
A 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine offers the most effective protection, science has reaffirmed.
The 12-week advice has been questioned, as the UK speeds up its administration to eight weeks in a bid to crush a fourth-wave threat.
But in Australia, we’re sticking with three months, as underpinned by research published recently in the British Medical Journal.
The study found vaccine efficacy reached 82.4 per cent after a second dose in those with a dosing…
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