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Health Health delays the second dose of AstraZeneca without scientific endorsement and collides with five autonomies
Saturated Nurse Antibody drop after 12 weeks with the first dose of AstraZeneca, why do you have to follow the guideline?
This afternoon the
Public Health Commission
meets
to
respond to the almost two million Spaniards who received the first dose of AstraZeneca
and who are waiting to complete their immunization. On the one hand, the scientific evidence, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Vaccination Strategy itself, prepared by the Carolina Darias ministry, point out that
"the complete vaccination schedule will preferably be carried out with the same vaccine
."
In addition, it should be noted that in the meeting of
the experts of the Vaccine Presentation
, which took place yesterday afternoon, as cited by
Cadena Ser
, and confirmed by health sources from the meeting to EL MUNDO,
the intention is to recommend the second dose with AstraZeneca
. Therefore, despite the division and debate, this position will be the one that will be transferred to the Public Health Commission.
Another point to take into account is the CombiVacs study, coordinated by the Carlos III Institute. Today we present data from the
phase 2, comparative, randomized and adaptive clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity
(ability of the immune system to respond successfully to an infection) of a dose of the vaccine called Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech) . The results will be measured in 600 people.
The making of this decision should not only be urged by people who want to know what will happen to them, but also because
Carolina Darias commented at the last Interterritorial Council that a large order for up to a million doses of the English vaccine will arrive at the end of this month
.
Which shows that, if there are communities in which the user profile of the same is being 'spent', now you will have to define the new ones in the short term.
If it is confirmed that the schedule will be completed with the second dose of AstraZeneca, communities such as
Madrid, Catalonia, Murcia and Andalusia would see how the pressure has paid off
.
Since their governments have insisted on it, even with the voluntary form of informed consent.
Return at 12 weeks between doses
Along with the controversy about what those already vaccinated with the Oxford vaccine will receive, there is the temporary separation of the doses.
In the Health roadmap, on vaccination, it states that
"it is estimated that the first people who should receive the second dose after extending
the interval between doses
to 16 weeks
should do so in
the week of May 31
".
The Health Strategy specifies that once the decision is made on how to complete the regimen,
the recommended interval will again be 10-12 weeks
, preferably 12 weeks.
It is recognized that the extension to 16 weeks was done "in order to have more information before deciding the vaccine to be administered."
A controversial decision against the opinion of Science and the EMA
The EMA has reiterated on more than one occasion that "
there is no reason to restrict the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine to any group
."
If the decision based on scientific evidence supporting the EMA's arguments were not enough, up to 17 scientific societies were positioned to put on the table the scientific knowledge behind being able to administer the second dose to those who have already received the dose. first.
Tato Vázquez Lima, president of the Spanish Society of Emergency and Emergency Medicine (Semes), one of the scientific entities that signed the document, declared to this newspaper a few days ago about this Health decision that "
the technical sheet indicates the interval clearly, and clinical trials have been conducted with those times
. That is the best scientific evidence available today. "
The document highlights the unequivocal position of the European agency: "
The EMA itself firmly positioned itself on April 23
indicating that people who received the first dose should receive the second in a period between four and 12 weeks."
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