The government has extended the second Pfizer booster inoculation from three weeks to 12

• THE government’s decision to extend the second Pfizer booster inoculation from three weeks to 12, flies in the face of the stipulated administering instructions of Pfizer, who say there is no data to demonstrate there is any protection after 21 days.

Why, then, is the government so confident that delaying the second jab for this, much longer, length of time will work when many other countries and institutions such as the World Health Organisation and the British Medical Association disagree, saying the delay should not pass the six-week marker; especially when taking into consideration the latest emergence of mutated strains?

So why take the chance? Given the government’s past failures concerning the protection of care home residents, initial lack of personal protective equipment, its inability to get a decent track-and-trace rolled out, the reluctance to close borders, which has left us with one of the highest death rates in the world and rising; how can we afford to take another risky gamble built on assumptions?

MIKE GEORGE,
NW5