| (I upvoted you, and I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes). > > Or I can give one dose to both of you. And this is what I know. At the very least, one dose is likely to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death. We don't know this from testing. We know it from real world data -- we've given a bunch of people their first dose and then we measured what happened. Imagine you tell people "we're going to give you two doses of this vaccine. You'll have the first dose today, and then you'll have your second dose in X weeks. We know this is safe and effective from the clinical trials. Do you want to go ahead?" And then, after you've given them the dose, you say "well, actually, looks like vaccine production is pretty slow, and we really need to vaccinate as many people as possible, so we're going to delay giving you your second dose". There's a strong argument for doing that, but it's not obviously the right thing to do. Informed consent is an important part of healthcare everywhere. And vaccinations are so important that anything that interferes with trust needs to be really carefully examined. |