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The Public Health Commission, in which all the autonomous communities and the Ministry of Health are represented, today agreed to extend the interval between the first and second doses of AstraZeneca from 12 to 16 weeks for people under 60 who have already received the first one. Expanding the interval will allow more information to be made available in order to make a decision that guarantees the safety of the vaccination, taking into account the best available knowledge, they say.
Thus, the published pharmacovigilance data on the use of the second dose of AZ in this age group and the new evidence on the use of a different vaccine for those who have received the first dose of AZ can be reviewed. In addition, the results of the Oxford University dose interchangeability study and other clinical trials such as the one initiated in Spain by the ISCIII will be available.
The family of 71-year-old Juan Antonio Manrique had put him âin a bubble.â In the midst of the pandemic, this chronic kidney patient required dialysis three times a week, and was considered high risk from the coronavirus. âHe was very weak,â explains his daughter Encarnación. âWe couldnât even celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary.â Juan Antonio was forced to get in an ambulance every other day to go for his dialysis, which he received alongside other patients. It was a half-hour journey between Roquetas de Mar (AlmerÃa) and the capital of the province, a trip that he also shared with other kidney patients. He ended up catching the virus and died after developing Covid-19, as did the other three patients with whom he traveled in the ambulance. It is not known whether the vehicle was the point of contagion.