Did your doctor invite you for the second dose three weeks after the first corona vaccination?
You can find out which recommendations apply to vaccination intervals here.
In the case of mRNA vaccinations from Biontech and Moderna six weeks, with Astrazeneca vaccinations twelve weeks: This rule currently applies with regard to the corona vaccination intervals.
But at the moment - also with regard to the more readily available vaccines - vaccination intervals are shorter.
The Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) provides information about the intervals between vaccinations without affecting the effectiveness of the vaccinations
.
Second vaccination: Three to six weeks interval between Biontech vaccinations
In the case of the Biontech vaccine, the approved vaccination interval is three to six weeks.
With Moderna vaccinations it is four to six weeks and with corona vaccinations with the Astrazeneca preparation a second vaccination is possible after four to twelve weeks.
As the
Infektionsschutz.de
portal
provides further information as an offer from the BZgA, the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) recommends
exhausting these vaccination intervals as much as possible
.
If doctors were to give the second vaccination after six or twelve weeks, as many people as possible could be given a first vaccination dose, as the coronavirus vaccination ordinance shows.
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Potsdam residents wait for their vaccination in the vaccination center.
The Standing Vaccination Commission recommends different intervals between vaccinations, depending on the vaccine.
© Bernd Settnik / dpa
The Robert Koch Institute as the leading biomedical research facility of the German federal government is also in favor of a longer interval between vaccinations: "Taking into account the approvals and the available efficacy data, the STIKO recommends an
interval between the two vaccine doses of six weeks
for the mRNA vaccines
, because this enables both a very good individual protective effect and a greater effect of the vaccination on the population level to be achieved ”.
Survey on the subject of corona vaccination
Second vaccination no later than 60 days after the first immunization
In general, a second vaccination - regardless of the vaccine - should not be earlier than 21 days after the first vaccination, because the first immune reaction would otherwise block the second immune reaction, according to the German Society for Immunology (DGfI). If the second vaccination succeeds later than 21 days after the first, the second immune reaction could even be more pronounced with other vaccines, informs the portal
internists on the net
.
Whether this is also the case with mRNA-based vaccines can only be shown through additional studies, it said
.
From an immunological point of view, there is nothing against setting the time interval for the second vaccination longer than 21 days, according to the DGfI.
It is crucial that the second vaccination takes place within 60 days.
(jg)
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