GPs in one of the UK’s Covid hotspots are offering all adults their second dose of Covid vaccination four weeks after their first, in a rush to administer vaccines within their shelf life. Several boroughs in Greater Manchester are deviating from the JCVI guidance. In Bolton – which last month had the highest rates of the Delta variant of Covid, linked to travel from India, and is now second only to Blackburn – clinicians are using their discretion to speed up delivery of second doses. But the Guardian has seen texts sent by two Bolton surgeries inviting patients to get their second vaccination at a pop-up clinic at Eden boys’ school if their first dose was at least 28 days ago. “It’s licensed from four weeks, guidance nationally says eight but it’s clinical discretion,” she wrote.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2021 06:00 UTC