UK's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam has warned that people who have received COVID-19 injections could still pass the virus on to others.
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The expert also said that "no vaccine has ever been" 100 per cent effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.
It is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said -- and it is "better" to allow "at least three weeks" for an immune response to fully develop in older people, the report said.
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As per the report, senior doctors have called on health officials in UK to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
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People who are pregnant, breastfeeding or trying to conceive should be offered the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine based on ethical grounds.
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But the British Medical Association said the policy was "difficult to justify" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.
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US Pharma Giant Merck Stops Development Of Two Potential Covid-19 Vaccines
Merck & Co, the US pharmaceutical giant has announced that it is discontinuing development of its Covid-19 vaccine candidates -- V590 and V591 -- after they failed to generate immune responses.
Merck & Co, the US pharmaceutical giant has announced that it is discontinuing development of its Covid-19 vaccine candidates -- V590 and V591 -- after they failed to generate immune responses.
