Caught in deadly race with new COVID strain, Britain gambles with mix-and-match vaccine regimen Scientists have slammed the new guidance which allows for the interchange of vaccines, if the second dose of the vaccine originally received is not available, saying officials have abandoned science and are just trying to guess their way out of a mess Representational image. AP
Amid a sputtering vaccine rollout and fears of a new and potentially more transmissible variant of the coronavirus , Britain has quietly updated its vaccination playbook to allow for a mix-and-match vaccine regimen. If a second dose of the vaccine a patient originally received isn’t available, or if the manufacturer of the first shot isn’t known, another vaccine may be substituted, health officials said.
On Wednesday at 8:40 p.m., Gov. Jared Polis posted a major health policy change on Facebook, announcing that counties at the red level of the state public health department’s dial will move to orange on Monday.
It was the second announcement of the day to take those most affected by surprise; at a news conference earlier in the day, he announced a change in the state’s priority list for vaccinations.
Health officials expressed frustration the next day that they’d been left in the dark on two major unilateral changes in health policy in one day, having to find out about them from social media instead of hashing them out with the governor ahead of time.
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Kelly Stanphill of Roseville (Placer County) is worried about her son, who is addicted to fentanyl.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Kelly Stanphill just wants something to change for her son, who is somewhere in San Francisco, drug-addled, gaunt and helplessly addicted to fentanyl.
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