The chief epidemiologist of the United States Governor, Anthony Fauci, considers it important that the second dose of vaccine against covid-19 should not be delayed – contrary to what some experts say – if they hold available scientific data .
Asked about his posture on this subject, Fauci stated in an interview with the NBC News television station that in order to study the effects of the second dose, he had enough vacancies for the whole world to be immunized.
“What we have now and with what we are debating is with the scientific data that we have accumulated, and it is very solid -agregó-. We know that with each of these (dose), there are well over 21 days or 28 days. You can do both. Puedes tener aunt gente con la primera dose, al tiempo que te adhieres, dentro de lo razonable, al calendar de la segunda dose “.
Aun asi, Fauci, who is medical assessor jefe of the president of the state, Joe Biden, reconciled that “the demand (of vacancies) clearly over the suministro”.
“If there is an increase in the availability of the dosage only in the capacity of manufacture, it will be incremented in accordance with February, March, April and most of all, with which there is a clear, clear discrepancy between this and the demand and the offer-. Mejoraremos conforme entramos in February and March “, predijo.
EE.UU. is the world’s most affected by the pandemic, with 27 million cases and more than 462,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
Before the release of the evacuation campaign, some countries, such as the United Kingdom, he decided to withdraw the administration of the second dose of sugar.
The British Governor has opted to postpone the second week of the second dose, considering that the first “part of the protection” against the virus, while the next one refuses to “complete and extend” the administration, said the medical counselor for the United Kingdom, Chris Whitty.
The British Society of Immunology responds to the plan as a solution acceptable to the court because of the “precedent-setting situation” that generated the pandemic, although it undermines the timelines of a strategy for which there are no conclusive tests in clinical trials.
The World Health Organization Alert Alert of the Final Testimony, although accepting the second dose has been six weeks in exceptional cases, a maximum demonstration similar to that allowed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA, in English) and the method of presentation by the United Kingdom.