The Minister of Health Olivier Véran .. -
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While the two health authorities estimated that it could be extended to six weeks, the time between the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be maintained at "3 or 4 weeks", announced the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on Tuesday .
"We are faced with a part of the unknown, I am choosing the security of validated data", justified the Minister, assuring that the question was "legitimate" but that a postponement would ultimately only have a "minor impact on the rhythm of vaccinations".
Speed up the injection of the first dose to the most vulnerable
On Saturday, the High Authority for Health (HAS) had indicated that it was possible to space the injection of two doses of vaccine by six weeks, faced with the limitation in the number of doses of vaccine, estimating that "the risk of loss effectiveness ”of the vaccine between two doses“ seems limited ”.
The extension of the injection time of the two doses will make it possible to "accelerate the administration of the first dose to the most vulnerable people", that is, according to the projections of the HAS, at least 700,000 additional people "who would be protected by the vaccine ”in the first month of application of this measure.
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