Doctors in the UK are pushing back against the government’s decision to postpone the second scheduled sighting of COVID-19, saying it is “very unfair” and predicting that the plan will government causes “major supply problems.”
Announcing approval for a second vaccine – the Oxford / AstraZeneca injection – on Wednesday, the government said it was also changing tack in its vaccination strategy to prioritize as many vulnerable people as receiving the first dose.
Doctors were instructed to delay the second dose of patients up to 12 weeks after the first.
For many local uses, that means calling thousands of elderly people, who had to pay for their second dose of BioNTech / Pfizer injection, at a time when health services are being stretched from COVID -19, vaccines and other winter illnesses.
Those patients who are delayed for second sight are “at greatest risk of death if contracted by COVID-19,” said Richard Vautrey, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GP committee, saying it was “to very unfair and patently ”their reorganization of posts.
It also “causes major supply problems for almost all sites and vaccine use,” Vautrey said.
Helen Salisbury, GP and columnist for the British Medical Journal, tweet it would take 193 hours to retire and re-register.
“If doctors decide to honor these reserved meetings in January, the BMA will support them,” Vautrey said.
The government said on Wednesday that the move, which follows advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), is based on data from clinical trials showing that recipients of the vaccine appear to be at risk. gaining a strong level of immunity after a single dose.