Yesterday, Friday, the French health authorities recommended giving one dose of the Corona virus vaccine to those who had previously been infected with the virus.
France is the first country to issue such a recommendation, and the Supreme Health Authority indicates in its recommendation, which is still awaiting approval from the government, that people who have recovered from the Corona virus, have an immune memory during infection, and therefore one dose is sufficient to activate this immunity, according to the Middle East newspaper.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported that the authority had recommended waiting for a period between three months to six months before receiving this dose, adding that until now no country has decided clearly on vaccination with a single dose for people who were infected before vaccination, while the past days have discussed this solution in several studies. It is conducted in the United States and Italy, and has not yet been evaluated by other scholars.
According to the newspaper, the researchers who conducted the research indicated that giving a single dose to people who previously had the disease could allow saving doses in the context of a shortage of supplies. The French government generally follows the recommendations of the Supreme Council of Health. But it was considered at the end of January, as it is not possible to increase the time limit between the two doses of the “Pfizer” vaccine, in contravention of the recommendation issued a few days earlier by the Supreme Committee.
She indicated that the French health authorities are betting heavily on the progress of the vaccination campaign to confront a fragile epidemic situation on a road that is still long As of yesterday, 2,135.33 people had received at least one dose of the vaccine in France, of whom 535,775 had received two doses. Since the start of the epidemic, 3.4 million infections have been recorded in France. However, it is likely that more people were infected with the virus during the first wave when tests were not widely available.
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