More adding support for delayed 2nd dose strategy. @mtosterholm + @mlipsitch are supportive. Early calls to consider this (notably op-ed by @michaelmina_lab + @zeynep in mid-Dec) were too quickly dismissed by some, IMO.
It's a race against new variants.https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/02/experts-tout-delaying-2nd-covid-vaccine-dose-us-deaths-mount …
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(Also is three weeks too short for a robust response? It increasingly seems that non-standard interval was chosen mostly to speed up trials. Randomizing three weeks and, say, five or six weeks and comparing outcomes might be useful and seems pretty low risk?).
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Very low risk. The immune system isn’t going to drop off a cliff at 28 days. Nor at 45 or 60 days.
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