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Fauci: U.S. must stick with two-shot strategy for Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna vaccines - The Washington Post

Fauci: U.S. must stick with two-shot strategy for Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna vaccines - The Washington Post

Fauci: U.S. must stick with two-shot strategy for Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna vaccines - The Washington Post
Mar 02, 2021 1 min, 16 secs

The government’s top infectious-disease expert on Monday reiterated that the United States will stick to a plan to inoculate tens of millions of Americans with two doses of coronavirus vaccine, as calls mount to protect more people by letting them get one shot now.

“We’re telling people [two shots] is what you should do … and then we say, ‘Oops, we changed our mind’?” Fauci said.

Fauci said he spoke on Monday with health officials in the United Kingdom, who have opted to delay second doses to maximize giving more people shots more quickly.

Some public health experts and other Americans have urged policymakers to reconsider whether millions of doses intended as second shots in Pfizer’s and Moderna’s two-dose regimen could be distributed as first doses instead — to offer at least some protection to a greater number of people.

Fauci said the science doesn’t support delaying a second dose for those vaccines, citing research that a two-shot regimen creates enough protection to help fend off variants of the coronavirus that are more transmissible, whereas a single shot could leave Americans at risk from variants such as the one first detected in South Africa.

Meanwhile, Fauci said he spoke on Monday with Chris Whitty, the British government’s chief medical adviser, to discuss the U.K.’s strategy to prioritize first doses and delay second doses.

“We had a really good conversation this morning,” Fauci said, noting that officials on both sides of the Atlantic acknowledged that delaying second doses posed challenges.

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