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# Fauci reportedly says U.S. will not extend interval between vaccine doses

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British health service has extended to 12 weeks from 3 the recommended time between doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine in order to quickly provide some measure of protection to more people

CNN reported Friday afternoon that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has ruled out an extension of the recommended interval between doses of the coronavirus vaccines in the U.S., even as delays in distributing and administering the vaccines mean the U.S. has fallen well short of early vaccination goals.

The National Health Service in the U.K. said Thursday that it was widening the window for people to receive the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer
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and German partner BioNTech
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in order to provide some measure of protection against the coronavirus-borne disease COVID-19 to more people, more quickly.

Pfizer objected that the vaccine’s efficacy and safety had not been studied at the wider recommended interval, some 12 weeks vs. the previously recommended four.

A second vaccine being administered in the U.S. under an emergency-use authorization, from Moderna
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is to be given in two doses with three weeks between.

Tim Rostan

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