I’m seeing discussions again about changing the timing of the second dose of the COVID vaccines, with what seems to be a goal of reaching herd immunity sooner. I see two problems with this.
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We don't have a rigid formula but... unexplained, unsupported changes may seem like goalpost moving & political interference. But as the UK (and Europe) example shows, predicting that any deviation from trials would undermine trust really did not hold up either in their context.
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In the UK we moved to the longer gap between doses very early in the vaccination process when we still had novelty (and the warm fuzzy feeling) on our side. By the time we’d really got going that was the norm. A change at this stage would be very different.
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But the last four years did damage to science, it was reframed as "all science is political". And people who don't understand science are suspicious, and don't know who to trust.
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Trust the scientists (real ones) - they’re not lying....
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