If you’ve held on to your second vaccination appointment booked for you at the time you got jabbed back in April, you must be feeling like a dinosaur.
There’s no obligation to rebook, you can still keep that original appointment- but the recommended interval between doses keeps falling- from the original estimate of sixteen weeks, to a new low of four weeks between MRNA inoculations, which will come into effect on June 28th.
Acting Medical Officer of Health with the Renfrew County and District Health Unit, Dr. Robert Cushman, says the RCDHU is substituting Moderna doses for Pfizer as the two serums have similar characteristics.
Cushman says the Province is making a big push to get doses into arms to ward off instances of the COVID-19 variant that originated in India.
The Acting Medical Officer of Health encourages residents to keep themselves informed of the dosage interval, which will change once again next Monday.
The new parametres are four weeks between MRNA jabs, and 8 weeks between an AstraZeneca dose and its MRNA upgrade.
Cushman notes there have been only two detected cases of the delta variant locally, but it is poised to become the dominant strain across Ontario.
