The Bioethics Committee endorses that those vaccinated with AstraZeneca can receive the second dose

The Bioethics Committee of Spain has endorsed that people under 60 years of age who have been vaccinated with the first dose of AstraZeneca against COVID-19 can receive their second dose with the same vaccine, provided they sign an informed consent. In this way, the rate of vaccination would advance significantly and thousands of vaccinated would not be left in the air. Health rectifies after the demand of Madrid and endorses being able to choose the second dose of AstraZeneca »It seems ethically and legally recommended that the People who refuse to be vaccinated with a heterologous schedule sign a specific informed consent protocol, which documentary proofs both their rejection of vaccination in such a schedule and that they have sufficient information on the risk of thrombosis syndrome with thrombocytopenia associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. This does not imply altering or waiving, in any way, the general criterion of verbal consent for vaccination against COVID-19 ″, reads the text. According to Health has announced in a statement, the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health has sent this report to the Public Health Commission, in which all the autonomous communities are represented, which will be added as a note to Update 7 of the Vaccination Strategy. In any case, its president, Federico de Montalvo, points out that « the right to choose is not recommended in this case nor is it recognized. In this sense, “the correct decision, as agreed by the Public Health Commission, is the heterologous regimen with a second dose of Pfizer.But given the risk that a person remains without completing the vaccination, due to what this means for the community and the person himself, if he expresses his rejection of this guideline, then we recommend that the second dose of AstraZeneca be offered to him, “he says The 11 members of the plenary session of the Bioethics Committee have voted in favor of this decision, while one of them has cast a concurrent individual vote, that is, that he has voted in favor of the report’s conclusions but with discrepancies in its content. Meanwhile, from the Basque Country, it has been indicated that next week appointments will be offered to people from essential groups under 60 years vaccinated with to receive the second doses of Pfizer, while those who want to complete the vaccination process with the Oxford antidote will enter “on a different agenda as long as there is a stock for it.” The Bioethics Committee of Spain has endorsed this Friday that people under the age of 60 who have been vaccinated with the first dose of AstraZeneca against covid-19 can receive their second dose with the same vaccine, provided they sign an informed consent. In this regard, the Basque Department of Health has announced in a statement that in the Basque Country it will begin to offer appointments next week to those who have to receive the second doses to administer the Pfizer vaccines. On the other hand, Astrazeneca points out that the people in this group who request the second dose of their vaccine with prior informed consent, will enter “a different schedule to receive the second dose, provided there is a supply for it.” Likewise, the Department of Health has announced that it will continue to report on the logistics and the citation process in the coming days.