LIVE | ‘It is unwise to deviate from vaccination regulations’ | Inland

Ton de Boer, chairman of the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB), calls it “unwise” that various countries consider deviating from the manufacturers’ vaccination regulations. He said that on Wednesday afternoon after the approval of the Moderna vaccine in Europe. Some countries want to extend the time between the first and second shot, or combine vaccines from different manufacturers in one person.

One reason for the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, among others, to postpone the second injection is to be able to give more people than the first vaccination. “That is not advisable with the knowledge we now have,” says De Boer.

The BioNTech-Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were administered to the study groups in two doses, three and four weeks apart respectively. “That means that between those two injections you cannot say anything about the effectiveness. It may be that you are less protected or that you are less protected. We don’t know that yet. What we do know is how it works if you get two injections with the recommended time in between. And so that is what we advise as a medicine authority: use the vaccine as it has been tested. ”

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) states that for the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine, there should be a maximum of 42 days between the administration of the first and second dose. That deadline must be respected to provide full protection, the agency said.

De Boer calls the option of vaccinating people with two different corona vaccines “very strange.” This combination is allowed by the English health service PHE in exceptional cases. De Boer: “If you ask me, you should only vaccinate if you are sure that you also have the second, same vaccine available. I would think it would be very strange if you said: ‘Let’s just start vaccinating and see which company the vaccine enters the country from and then we inject it’. ”

Hospitals are in a hurry

There is a lot of interest among medical care personnel to get vaccinated. Several hospitals expect to have used up their shipment of vaccines received on Wednesday before the end of this week.

Not all hospitals in the North Holland / Flevoland region have started vaccinating yet. Nevertheless, the Regional Consultation Acute Care (ROAZ), responsible for the coordination of the vaccine doses in those two provinces, expects that the vaccines will be finished soon. “Due to the limited number of vaccinations, almost every hospital will run out of supplies quite quickly.”

The ROAZ from the Brabant region expects the load of a thousand vaccines to be through by Thursday at the latest. “There is a lot of interest among the staff, the registration lists were full in no time,” said a spokesman.

About 200 employees will receive an injection at Amsterdam UMC on Wednesday. LUMC Leiden employs approximately 150 to 200 employees per day, up to and including Saturday. The Isala hospital in Zwolle expects to perform several hundred vaccinations in the coming days.

One third of the employees who are eligible for vaccination had already registered at UMC Utrecht two hours after the invitation was sent out. After the first injection was taken around 2 p.m., 200 employees were vaccinated during the day.

In the Medisch Spectrum Twente the number is about 180 people and in the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital in Nijmegen 150 vaccinated employees.

In a few days, approximately 24,000 acute care employees and approximately 6,000 ambulance employees in the Netherlands will be vaccinated, said Ernst Kuipers, chairman of the board of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and chairman of the National Network for Acute Care. Erasmus MC will vaccinate 250 employees on Wednesday.

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• USA: record number of corona deaths in 24 hours again
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Sport:

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Entertainment / personal:

• First vaccinated Dutch person Sanna Elkadiri tonight at Jinek
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• Vader Joe Exotic died of corona

View here the live blog of Tuesday 5 January.

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