Prognosis
Mixing Covid Vaccines Should Be Possible, Oxford Trial Head Says
- Questions raised over combining shots as trial results roll in
- Data from AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine expected imminently
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People should be able to mix coronavirus vaccines, so they wouldn’t be precluded from trying a different shot if their first one is less effective, the University of Oxford’s lead trial investigator said.
“The theory is that that should work, and there’s no reason” why it wouldn’t, Andrew Pollard, who is leading the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine trial with AstraZeneca Plc, said Thursday at a press briefing on the group’s latest results. “It should be possible to use one vaccine and then boost with the other.”