Health
Exclusive: Sir Geoffrey Boycott voices fears over delays to second dose of Pfizer jab – Telegraph.co.uk
Cricket legend says: ‘If I get the second jab after 12 weeks, is it going to help or are we still going to be at risk?’
Professor Robin Shattock, from the department of infectious disease at Imperial College London, said: “The evidence for the Pfizer vaccine is less robust. It’s only for three weeks, we don’t know what level of protection a single dose might give over a period of up to 12 weeks.
“The potential risk is if it’s a sub-optimal immune response, although it may reduce hospital admissions it may give the virus a window to evolve mutations that may render the vaccine less efficacious in the future.
“So it’s…
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