[melling]

... or you could give both doses to the other person because I can wait 3-4 months.

In the US there are

- 25 million Americans over 75

- 50 million 65 and older, including the 75 year olds

We have given out 70 million doses.

I think we’re around 40 million jabs a month, hopefully that increases to 60 million soon

There’s no need to experiment.

However, if we find >3-4 weeks between jabs is fine, let’s do it.

[monkeypizza]

The comparison was between

    giving 2 doses to one person over 65, and nothing to another other person over 65
    giving one dose each to two 65+ people

We have evidence that total harm prevention under the second case is higher than the first case, and it also makes perfect logical sense, and there are public health officials confirming this.

On the other hand we have tradition, custom, specific tests.

Say vaccines were tested based on administration in a blue room, but weren't tested in a room painted red. Why are you able to assert without tests that the room color is irrelevant, but are asking for proof that giving two people 85% resistance is better than one person with 95%, when all the evidence supports it? What is leading to wanting to strictly adhere to the exact tested procedure? How do you square your disagreement with the public health officials actively investigating this issue in the linked posts?

[monkeypizza]

> There’s no need to experiment.

People who haven't caught coronavirus yet are still likely to catch it and be at risk. That is, new people are still being infected and are likely to be for a few more months yet.

What calculation are you running to say that changes to policy which might increase first-dose protection are not worth making to protect them?

[wang_li]

We did 50 million in the last thirty days.