Only one dose for people who have had Covid?

[workwoes123]

I live in France, where the government have recently advised that anyone who's had covid at all only needs 1 dose of the Pfizer / mRNA jabs as a result. While I understand that the current research may support this view, I know from in the only country to have adopted that policy.

In the UK (which is the country where all my family are that I haven't seen for over a year now) would I be considered to be "fully vaccinated" after 1 dose, having also had Covid in September 2020? I'm worried that the French and UK views on this won't match up, and it will make it extra difficult to visit the UK in the near future (which I know is also very up in the air).

The latest research has shown that only people who have never had Covid before benefit from a second dose of the vaccine

I’ve managed to find one study from Penn State about this (involving those who have had an mRNA vaccine). You may be aware of more Sisisimone. The study involved only 44 patients and the authors themselves are not claiming that the above is definitely the case - they want to do further large scale studies to see if their findings are replicated.

@QwertyGirly

www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/april/penn-study-suggests-those-who-had-covid19-may-only-need-one-vaccine-dose

'People who have recovered from COVID-19 had a robust antibody response after the first mRNA vaccine dose, but little immune benefit after the second dose, according to new research from the Penn Institute of Immunology. '

As above - with 44 participants.

The article on the BBC is confusing.

'Two jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.

However, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose.

This compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.'

Which shows that both vaccines have the same level of efficacy against both variants, so they are both less effective against the Indian variant.

Isn’t the EU vaccine passport starting from July 1st? I’d imagine that the UK would accept that rather than making individual country judgments, especially if the nhs app gets blanket EU-wide approval, but of course I could be wrong. Also, if France registers you as fully vaccinated even after one dose, then you’d be on the vaccine passport as fully vaccinated so how would the UK know any differently?

Article from Le Monde explaining France's decision www.lemonde.fr/blog/realitesbiomedicales/2021/05/02/une-seule-dose-de-vaccin-stimule-limmunite-contre-certains-variants-du-sars-cov-2-chez-des-personnes-ayant-deja-ete-infectees/

It states that the immune response from patients that have had covid and a 1st dose of the vaccine is very similar to someone who have not had covid and two doses.

The article, ironically, quotes a British research (Imperial College London).

They are shown officially as being fully vaccinated
So you will be recorded as fully vaccinated so this will be what is recorded for travel purposes, so wouldn't worry.