UK 'running short' on Pfizer vaccine with some Brits having second jabs delayed
But the country is awash with Oxford jabs, she said. She told the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: “At the moment, we've mainly got the AstraZeneca vaccine and very few Pfizer.and actually cancelling people for the Pfizer as our supplies are running short.”
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which rules on who should get what jabs, decided in May that under 40s should be offered an alternative to the Oxford vaccine. The JCVI said they made the decision out of an abundance of caution. But as infection rates climb and Britain races to try to double jab everyone at lightning-quick speed, they are under pressure to reverse the edict.
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