It can be assumed that comment in the OECD’s May 2021 Economic Outlook that: protection from the first dose will wane in the medium term, and the second dose will still be required to provide more durable ‘[t]he pace of vaccination needs to accelerate to reduce the risks of protection. [...] The committee advises initially prioritising delivery of new outbreaks and pave the way for full border reopening in 2022’.2 the first vaccine dose as this is highly likely to have a greater public This point was not lost on ACT leader David Seymour, who noted: health impact in the short term and reduce the number of preventable deaths from COVID-19.10 After saying we would be at the front of the. [...] That is the message from the UK rollout – a 12-week gap will ensure New Zealand is in the best position to live with emerging COVID-19 variants for years to come. [...] No doubt there is work happening behind the scenes to remedy this, but a photo could have been collected at the time of the first vaccination and a verifiable certificate could have been posted out after the second dose. [...] It is in all our best for New Zealand should look like the UK in March 2021 than interests for the government to adapt the vaccination process in such New Zealand in June 2021 (see Figures 2 and 3).
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