{"id":50528,"date":"2021-04-04T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=50528"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:08:03","slug":"one-vaccine-dose-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/one-vaccine-dose-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"One Vaccine Dose or Two?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50063\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\" alt=\"david-wohl\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnct.com\/news\/north-carolina\/1-dose-or-2-cdc-vaccine-study-raises-question-about-prioritizing-single-shots-for-more-people\/\">WNCN news story<\/a> reports on a real-world CDC vaccine study that raises questions about prioritizing single shots for more people. The study found the two-dose COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective after the first shot. But if one dose works so well outside of clinical trials, should national and state leaders change their priorities to getting more people that first dose and delaying those second shots?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, explains how changing course could come with a risk that has to do with timing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnct.com\/news\/north-carolina\/1-dose-or-2-cdc-vaccine-study-raises-question-about-prioritizing-single-shots-for-more-people\/\">Watch the WNCT news report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WNCN news story reports on a real-world CDC vaccine study that raises questions about prioritizing single shots for more people. The study found the two-dose COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective after the first shot. But if one dose works so well outside of clinical trials, should national and state leaders change their priorities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/one-vaccine-dose-or-two\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about One Vaccine Dose or Two?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":50063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-50528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Vaccine Dose or Two? | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/one-vaccine-dose-or-two\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Vaccine Dose or Two? | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A WNCN news story reports on a real-world CDC vaccine study that raises questions about prioritizing single shots for more people. 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