What exactly is happening with AstraZeneca?

No AZ

Maybe no need for a AZ booster at the moment

The 7 vs 14 day for Pfizer is a non-issue.

Pfizer states it's 35 days from the first dose with the following dose at wk3 or wk4.

Ireland went with four weeks between doses thus it's one week away from 35 days.

Europe goes with three weeks in-between the doses thus two weeks to make up 35 days.

Boo hoo.

That age cohort got the vaccine that was available at the time.

Funnily, not many seem to have issues about it, only you.

Which brings me to question, why on earth you ever took the vaccine in the first place.

Don't answer that btw. I don't need the copy and paste psalm again.

"People who have received the AstraZeneca jab may not need a booster because they should be protected against Covid for longer, the firm's chief executive has said.

Pascal Soriot suggested that the Oxford jab may elicit a stronger T-cell response than the vaccines produced by US companies Pfizer and Moderna.

The firm is waiting for further data which may prove that millions of older Britons given the AZ jab do not need another dose, he said.

Ministers are drawing up plans to offer booster shots to 32 million people amid evidence that the protection offered by Covid vaccines gradually wanes.

"We hope that the Oxford-AstraZeneca will provide longer-term protection," Mr Soriot told the Daily Mail.

"The science so far suggests that our vaccine provides a strong T-cell response, which I hope means its effects will last longer. So it looks good, but we don't yet know for sure whether you will need a booster. Time will tell."

Scientists believe T-cells, a type of white blood cell, may provide longer-lasting immunity to Covid than antibodies. In April, a Birmingham University study found that the AstraZeneca jab appeared elicit a stronger T-cell response than either Pfizer or Moderna.

Meanwhile, data collected by Johnson & Johnson, whose vaccine is based on the same technology as the AZ jab, showed it "provides years of protection", Mr Soriot said. 

Pfizer has admitted that the effectiveness of its MRNA vaccine steadily declines over time, dropping to about 84 per cent for vaccinated people about four to six months after getting their second dose.

Conclusive data comparing the jabs is expected by October or November. By that time, however, the Government's booster programme is expected be up and running.

Third doses are set to be offered to 32 million Britons, with an average of almost 2.5million third doses a week, starting in the first week of September. 

All adults aged 50 and over, as well as the immuno-suppressed, will be offered the booster jabs. The campaign could start as soon as September 6, which would see the rollout completed by early December if it goes to plan."

Here is another one Professor Macron said AZ was "quassi effective " in older people so refused to use it on older people. Other lemmings followed him and now it turns out that Pfizer runs out in 6 months and the ones who got vaccinated first were the most vulnerable to serious injury, just as Delta turns up. That is not forgetting creating a massive hesitancy against the vaccine around the world also.

But the best part is that Bojo the clown extended the doses for Pfizer to 3 months which actually extended Pfizers effiacy and durability and also increased the antibody in those that took it.

You may want to read the op again. You look to have skipped over some words:

"People who have received the AstraZeneca jab may not need a booster because they should be protected against Covid for longer, the firm's chief executive has said.

Pascal Soriot suggested that the Oxford jab may elicit a stronger T-cell response than the vaccines produced by US companies Pfizer and Moderna.

The firm is waiting for further data which may prove that millions of older Britons given the AZ jab do not need another dose, he said.

Ministers are drawing up plans to offer booster shots to 32 million people amid evidence that the protection offered by Covid vaccines gradually wanes.

"We hope that the Oxford-AstraZeneca will provide longer-term protection," Mr Soriot told the Daily Mail.

"The science so far suggests that our vaccine provides a strong T-cell response, which I hope means its effects will last longer. So it looks good, but we don't yet know for sure whether you will need a booster. Time will tell."

The real world data coming out of Israel doesn't line up with the rest of the world.

Even Pfizer was debating with Israel if they went ahead to call it a booster and not a third jab etc...

Plenty of people in the Pfizer trials are 12+ months from their first jab. If there was an issue, it would be seen in them first.

Who is saying a booster is needed?

Everyone is saying a booster is needed. It is needed because some vaccines are not as good as they were against other variants, nothing to do with it is a bad vaccine or anything. All of them will probably be good with one and not so good against another.

You can just disregard any data from 12 months ago because Delta never even existed then.

Incorrect AZ could not recommend 12 weeks for AZ because it was only given emergency approval based on 4 weeks. Once countries bought the vaccines they could do whatever they wanted. So the UK itself decided on 12 weeks probably because Oxford invented the damned thing and knew a lot more about it than Astra Zeneca ever would. Same thing happened with Pfizer they only trialed it for 4 weeks to get it approved quicker.

Israel is one of the best scientific powerhouses of the world. If they do a test and publish the data then straight away started giving third jabs to the most vulnerable people in society you can be well assured they know what the situation is, don't you worry.

Once again Pfizer is a great vaccine just on this occasion it is not as good against this strain as it was against the others.Same will happen others no doubt.

"We hope that the Oxford-AstraZeneca will provide longer-term protection," Mr Soriot told the Daily Mail. 

"The science so far suggests that our vaccine provides a strong T-cell response, which I hope means its effects will last longer. So it looks good, but we don't yet know for sure whether you will need a booster. Time will tell."

That's a lot of hoping in there. It's irrelevant anyway as the article clearly states the UK will be giving boosters before there is conclusive proof of this so there is no saving to the UK, they are buying the boosters anyway. Other countries will give boosters too and will be in the same boat as regards lockdowns.

Can you provide a link to show that "Pfizer runs out in 6 months"? There seems to be a slight drop after 6 months but the Pfizer vaccine seems to generally be stronger and may remain so even with a drop in efficacy;

https://www.ft.com/content/5a24d39a-a702-40d2-876d-b12a524dc9a5

Check out Table 1 in the Public Health England COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Reports, indicates Pfizer preforming better

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-surveillance-report

Also, it's noticeable how you stopped posting links to the UK daily cases in the UK Response thread when they started going back up.

The guy above explains better than i can.

From one of the main channels on Israeli news

The Israel report was published today but the figures from last week were

Did Israel get a bad Pfizer batch in April?

CI range is massive, makes no sence, apart from if there was very few second doses given in April, but why then would the CI among infection and symptomatic disease be tighter?