这只是一个思路,根据的是二期临床时 55 岁以下人群对于低剂量的免疫反应很好,FDA现在并没有同意,需要更多数据。 The finding Dr. Slaoui cited came from an early Phase II clinical trial, which involved hundreds of people and was designed to test only for immune response, and not for the effectiveness of the vaccine, Dr. Fauci said. It compared the immune response in people given 50 micrograms against those given 100 micrograms.
Dosing optimization is common in drug development. But FDA would not recommend change from approved dosing regimen until there is evidence (either from randomized trial or exposure response analyses) indicating comparable efficacy and/or better safety is demonstrated between different dosing regimens.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/05/world/covid-19-coronavirus/scientists-are-studying-if-the-moderna-vaccine-supply-can-be-doubled-by-cutting-doses-in-half
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the drugmaker Moderna are analyzing vaccine research data to see if they can double the supply of the company’s coronavirus vaccine by cutting doses in half, a move that would help alleviate vaccine shortages as the country tries to fight off a surging virus. The research, which also involves scientists from Operation Warp Speed, the government’s vaccine initiative, could take about two months, Dr. John Mascola, the director of the Vaccine Research Center at the N.I.H., said in an interview Tuesday.
FDA已经表态反对了吧,除非有新的clinical trial结果
上次说打了5倍 现在要缩小一半
The finding Dr. Slaoui cited came from an early Phase II clinical trial, which involved hundreds of people and was designed to test only for immune response, and not for the effectiveness of the vaccine, Dr. Fauci said. It compared the immune response in people given 50 micrograms against those given 100 micrograms.
这也太本末倒置了。现在疫苗的瓶颈是注射而不是生产。
现在的政治家都很灵活
早上听广播说FDA没有同意这样做。说有可能得不偿失
也不见得,剂量多一点就可以早点铺开1b,1c stage 剂量太少需要留着1a, 1b的第二个dose,不能把第一针都打掉,
不然现在把第一针都打掉了,万一到时候for some reason疫苗缺货,打了第一针的没法按时打第二针怎么办,又会很麻烦。