Vaccine Panel Confirms Choice to Delay Doses up to 4 Months in Canada

Vaccine Panel Confirms Choice to Delay Doses up to 4 Months in Canada
A pharmacist prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine at a pharmacy prototype clinic in Halifax on March 9, 2021. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says it is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend the delivery of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months.

NACI’s experts issued a recommendation in early March to extend the dosing interval from three or four weeks to as long as 16 weeks, because vaccine supplies were limited and they felt getting some protection to more people faster was needed.