Submitted on Saturday 2nd January 2021
Rejected on Friday 8th January 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Dont delay 2nd Covid vaccine dose so elderly/NHS have maximum protection sooner.
Give the second dose of the vaccine to people within 3 or 4 weeks as recommended by the vaccine manufacturers and MHRA so maximum efficacy is achieved. Speed up the vaccine delivery program significantly by providing more people to vaccinate. e.g. Pharmacists could be used.
The elderly and NHS staff need full protection. Thousands of NHS staff are off work as they are vulverable and wont be able to return to work until their 2nd dose is given. Many are nurses who could do vacinations when they can resume work. Also front line NHS staff are less likely to be off sick with the virus once fully protected. The Elderly will still need to stay isolated from family until they have maximum protection so returning to a more normal life is being delayed 3 months for them.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or House of Commons are directly responsible for, and decisions about approval of vaccines and the administration of these is a matter for various public health agencies, not the Government or House of Commons.
We have published the following petition calling for a related action, which you might like to sign:
Ban vaccines being administered in a manner not fully tested in clinical trials: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/566116
The delays to receiving the second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine has been implemented by the NHS following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation, which has also been supported by the UK's four Chief Medical Officers. Their new advice and the changes to the Covid-19 vaccination programme are consistent with the temporary authorisations granted for these vaccines by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
The JCVI, Chief Medical Officers, MHRA and NHS England are all independent and operationally independent of the UK Government, so we cannot accept petitions calling for actions that these bodies are responsible for.
You can read the JCVI's advice on optimising the COVID-19 vaccination programme for maximum short-term impact here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/prioritising-the-first-covid-19-vaccine-dose-jcvi-statement/optimising-the-covid-19-vaccination-programme-for-maximum-short-term-impact
You can read the statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers on the prioritisation of first doses of COVID-19 vaccines here: www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-from-the-uk-chief-medical-officers-on-the-prioritisation-of-first-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines
You can read the MHRA's conditions of Authorisation for Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/conditions-of-authorisation-for-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine
You can read the MHRA's conditions of Authorisation for COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca/conditions-of-authorisation-for-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca
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