Health
‘An act of desperation’: UK’s delay of second vaccine dose comes under fire – The Times of Israel
Experts criticize British policy, which also reportedly includes directive allowing healthcare workers to mix Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca inoculations
In a shift from practices in the US, Britain plans to give people second doses of the coronavirus vaccines within 12 weeks of their first shot rather than within 21 days, to accelerate immunizations across as many people as quickly as possible. The practice has drawn some criticism from experts around the world.
“It’s an act of desperation. It also controvenes the scientific protocols,” said Israeli epidemiologist Ron Balicer on Saturday, in an interview with Channel 12, underlining that it remains…
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