France advises delaying second COVID-19 shots to speed vaccines
(WorldNews France)

PARIS — France`s top health authority is recommending doubling the time between the two required COVID-19 vaccine shots as a way to stretch supplies and inoculate as many people as possible amid a resurgence in the spread of the coronavirus. Giving a second injection six weeks after the first would allow at least 700,000 more people to be protected with a first shot during the first month, the country`s Haute Autorite de Sante said in a statement Saturday. The advice is for the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE as well as another supplied by Moderna Inc., it said. “The risk of a loss of efficacy appears...