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France Advises Delaying Second Covid Shots to Speed Vaccines
A healthcare worker receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in a care home in Paris.
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France’s top health authority is recommending doubling the time between the two required Covid-19 vaccine shots as a way to stretch supplies and inoculate as many people as possible amid a resurgence in the spread of the coronavirus.
Giving a second injection six weeks after the first would allow at least 700,000 more people to be protected with a first shot during the first month, the country’s Haute Autorite de Sante said in a statement Saturday. The advice is for the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE as well as another supplied by Moderna Inc., it said.