UK: Boris Govt Plans to Offer THIRD Covid Vax Dose to Over-50s from Septemberhttps://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/01/uk-boris-govt-plans-offer-third-covid-vax-dose-over-50s-september/The British authorities are planning to offer a third round of coronavirus vaccine doses to over-50s alongside flu shots from September, claiming that “we will need to ensure protection against flu as well as maintaining protection against Covid-19” as winter descends.
The over-70s, care home residents, frontline healthcare and social care workers, and over-16s with immune conditions will be prioritised for the third jab, according to The Telegraph, followed by over-50s, younger adults eligible for flu shots, and those in close contact with people who have immune conditions.
Officials are said to be considering a so-called “mix and match” approach with respect to this third round of jabs, with decision-makers mulling whether to offer people who have been double-dosed with the Oxford-AstraZeneca viral vector vaccine a dose of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, people who have been double-dosed with Pfizer vaccine a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, etc. — although no final decision on this has been made as of the time of publication.
Mix-and-match studies have been going on for a little while,
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