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Delaying second covid vaccine dose is a 'kick in the guts' to frontline NHS medics

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thousands of health workers and vulnerable people. They had been among the first to get the Pfizer/BioNTech shot at the start of December and were due to get the follow up jab from January 5.

But the UK Government changed course with the approval of the second Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday. Now officials want to get as many first doses done from both drugs, meaning people could have to wait up to 12 weeks from their first injection.The consultant, who did not want to be identified, said: "This is the first time I've felt unsafe in the pandemic.

It's a kick in the guts for many of us."Every time I go to work I'm hoping that I don't take the virus home."I was excited to get the first dose and was expecting the second shortly.

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