Extend the time between the two injections of the vaccine to save time and be able to provide initial protection to more people.
A time mentioned, this possibility was definitively ruled out by the executive on Tuesday.
"We are maintaining the injection time for the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine at 3 to 4 weeks," Olivier Véran said at a press conference.
I therefore ask all the actors who organize this vaccination to stick to these recommendations: we do not affect the injection time of the Pfizer vaccine ”.
However, this option of extending the time between the two injections had been very clearly considered by the executive.
"The French health authorities have just validated an important principle, according to which it is possible, without risk and without loss of effectiveness, to postpone the second injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine up to six weeks instead of three", had advanced the Minister of Health at a press conference on January 7.
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The High Authority (HAS) for health itself pleaded a few days ago for a period extended to six weeks instead of three for the so-called messenger RNA vaccines, those of Pfizer and Moderna.
A choice "imposed" by the urgency of the situation, in view of the "possible next epidemic outbreak, with the arrival of variants", estimated the HAS.
Recommendations that ultimately were not followed by the government.
