Front-line workers in the aviation industry registering for Covid-19 vaccination at Changi Airport Terminal 4 on Jan 18, 2021. - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, Jan 25 (The Straits Times/ANN): Confidence levels in vaccines are expected to rise as more people here get inoculated against Covid-19, said Singapore s chief health scientist Tan Chorh Chuan on Monday (Jan 25). There will be rising confidence amongst society and we expect that the take-up rates will then start to increase quite sharply, he told a panel on boosting vaccine confidence at The Davos Agenda, a series of virtual sessions organised by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
This view, said Professor Tan, accords with an observation made by his fellow panellist, chief executive of market research company Ipsos Mori, Ben Page.
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The rationale is that, with the virus raging alongside uncertainty about vaccine supply, vaccinating a greater number of people with a single dose would be more effective at preventing deaths and hospitalisations than if a smaller number of people received two doses. However critics question the wisdom of moving away from the timetable tested during clinical trials.
Here are five things to know about the evidence and potential implications of delaying vaccine doses.
1. There is little trial evidence to show what impact this will have on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
When UK officials announced the new guidelines, two vaccines had been authorised for use.
It s what some have called a French paradox : a country with historically high medicine consumption has notably low confidence in vaccines, a trend that has sparked concern in the early days of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
Trailing its European neighbours in the first weeks of its vaccination campaign, the French government was accused by some of capitulating to a vaccine-hesitant population. Experts say the delay, however, was likely also logistical.
Yet France remains one of the most vaccine-hesitant countries in the world, despite some recent signs that as more people are vaccinated for COVID, confidence rises.
Nevertheless, just 40% of people in France said that if a COVID-19 vaccine was available they would get it, according to a December 2020 Ipsos survey.