“Good protection for many (with 1 shot) is better than protection for a few. 2,000 people a day die because they can’t get the first shot # covid19, not because they can’t get a second.” Adams wrote in a
Twitter thread. In another tweet, Adams wrote, “Take out all the doses NOW and lean towards production!”
Adams included a link to an article published by The Washington Post on Monday in which Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the Biden administration, said the US had to follow two doses. regime for Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
Fauci told the newspaper that there were “risks on both sides” of switching to a single dose or staying with both.
“We are telling people [two shots] is that what you have to do … and then we say, “Wow, we’ve changed our minds”? “said the top disease expert.” I think that would be a messaging challenge, at the very least. “
On Tuesday, Adams tried to clarify his comments.
“I do not say it is [100 emoji] the right way. I’m saying there is enough data / evidence to suggest that it is not [100 emoji] the wrong way and with 2,000 people (unvaccinated) dying a day, it’s worth giving states the flexibility to try. ”
he tweeted.
Amid a low supply of vaccines, several experts have advocated delaying the second dose in favor of getting the first number of people, and some research has suggested a high degree of temporary single-dose protection. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and top U.S. officials have backed down, saying it is unclear how long this protection lasts and arguing the need to keep up with the evidence from the clinical trials. .
During a discussion of vaccines Monday at a meeting of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee, experts said two doses better protect people against coronavirus variants than a single dose. U.S. health officials are concerned that the spread of more infectious variants could hold the country back in its fight to control the pandemic.
Although the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines were tested as a two-dose regimen, the UK has gone on to delay the second doses to get more first doses to more people more quickly.
Over the weekend, the FDA authorized Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine. Currently, the J&J vaccine is also being tested as a two-dose vaccine.
