It’s still a two-shot regimen, but you don’t need to wait for the second shot before you begin reaping the immunological benefits. Ten days after your first dose, you’ll already have a solid defense against the virus. Which means once vaccinations really start rolling across the U.S. we should start seeing case counts drop almost immediately.
*If* vaccinations really start rolling across the U.S., I guess I should say. Thanks to the White House’s baffling refusal to purchase more than 100 million doses of Pfizer’s product, it’s an open question when most of us will have access to this miracle of science.
Maybe we’ll get stuck with Oxford vaccine instead. That one’s 70 percent effective on average according to the final data published today, not 90+ percent like Pfizer’s and Moderna’s products are.
Anyway, today’s news from the FDA is wonderful in two ways. One, obviously, is that the Pfizer vaccine provides protection quickly after one dose. The other is that, if they’ve reached this conclusion, they must be tantalizingly close to issuing an emergency use authorization for the vaccine. It won’t be long now…
New coronavirus cases quickly tapered off in the vaccinated group of volunteers about 10 days after the first dose, according to one graph in the briefing materials.
This article was sourced from Hot Air
