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23 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This could be the reason that the Pfizer vaccine effectiveness numbers against delta appear to be so different in Israel and the UK. The UK mostly stuck to an 8-12 week dosing interval, while Israel used 3 weeks.

bbc.com/news/health-57…
It's also an argument in favour of Israel giving a third dose at, say, 6-9 months to the over-50s — a dose which might be unnecessary in the UK until 1-2 years.
In April I speculated that the real test of the UK's dosing interval would come in 9 months. I was wrong; it was sooner.
As @zeynep pointed out in January, the three week dosing interval for Pfizer always seemed to be unusually short. I delayed my second dose by a few days on purpose in the hope of squeezing out a little more protection, but perhaps I should have gone longer

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full story here: reuters.com/business/healt…
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