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Old 04-07-2021, 07:39 PM   #365
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Originally Posted by jeffk View Post
My bet it that it is purely logistics. When they give people either Pfizer or Moderna, they schedule the 2nd shot 4 weeks out. If they didn't do this, Pfizer 2nd doses at 3 weeks would start happening at the same time as Moderna 2nd doses at 4 week intervals. They don't have the facility space or staff to do double duty. Since it doesn't seem that the time window is critical at 3 weeks, it's just a lot easier to do it this way.
That is exactly what Walgreen's claimed, and why they were reprimanded by the CDC and have now changed that practice.
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