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COVID-19: Medical experts, parents consider shorter interval between vaccine doses for children
COVID-19 vaccine last month, she began calling friends across the border in Lewiston, N.Y., to help her find a pharmacy in the United States where she could bring him for a second dose after three weeks.“We were just trying to figure out what we were going to do to get him his second dose in three weeks because it was really important to us,” she said.Canada’s advisory body on immunization, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), recommends eight weeks between doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 based on emerging evidence that longer intervals between the first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines result in more robust and durable immune response and higher vaccine effectiveness.Raymer Bishop