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Inject the second vaccine dose after 21 days and not delaying it for 12 weeks.

Submitted on Friday 8th January 2021

Rejected on Friday 8th January 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Inject the second vaccine dose after 21 days and not delaying it for 12 weeks.

Petition Details

Stop delaying the second dose of the vaccine and to follow the WHO advices in order to get the full protection as quick as possible. The World Health Organisation does not recommend following the UK's decision of delaying the second injection.

Additional Information

As the producers have stated, the full immunization (90%-95% depending on the type of vaccine) comes only after the second dose, having a partial immunization just to increase the number of people injected will not relieve those who receive it and those who are waiting to get it. There’s many evidence of people getting the virus after the first dose and this has already decreased the morale of NHS staff after the nurse has infected the family even though she received the first dose.


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This petition was rejected

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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