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Reuters By Michael Erman 2/4/2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is weighing changes to vaccine guidance to increase the time between doses due to the risk of heart inflammation.

 U.S. health officials on Friday said they are considering lengthening the recommended interval between the first two doses of the most widely used COVID-19 vaccines to eight weeks to lower the risk of heart inflammation and improve their effectiveness.

Dr. Sara Oliver, an official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the agency was considering making the recommendation for Moderna (MRNA.O) and Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNTech shots during a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a panel of outside advisers to the CDC.

In the United States, the recommended interval between the first two shots of Pfizer's vaccine is three weeks and for Moderna's, four.

More: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-considers-lengthening-gap-between-first-2-covid-shots-8-weeks-2022-02-04/


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Re: U.S. considers lengthening gap between first 2 COVID shots to 8 weeks
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2022, 05:38:51 am »
Hard to believe they still are pushing these injections. Who trusts the CDC on anything?
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Re: U.S. considers lengthening gap between first 2 COVID shots to 8 weeks
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2022, 07:07:48 am »
So the CDC is acknowledging that their shots are killing folks...

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Re: U.S. considers lengthening gap between first 2 COVID shots to 8 weeks
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2022, 08:56:56 am »
How about lengthening it to never.
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2022, 09:08:43 am »
So the CDC is acknowledging that their shots are killing folks...

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Re: U.S. considers lengthening gap between first 2 COVID shots to 8 weeks
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2022, 09:09:13 am »
"If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people."    -Calvin Coolidge

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Re: U.S. considers lengthening gap between first 2 COVID shots to 8 weeks
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2022, 09:30:16 am »
Guidance/Recommendations are not mandates....

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Re: U.S. considers lengthening gap between first 2 COVID shots to 8 weeks
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2022, 11:08:57 am »
This'll be sure to convince the antivaxxers. Make it take even longer for them to be legal.  *****rollingeyes*****
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