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Pfizer, Astra Shots to Be Combined in U.K. Covid Vaccine Trials

  • Taskforce aims to determine whether cocktail boosts immunity
  • Taskforce has purchased 357 million doses of seven vaccines

A card which will be given to patients following Covid-19 vaccine shots in U.K.

Photographer: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/Bloomberg

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Even as it begins the first Covid immunizations with a shot from Pfizer Inc., the U.K. plans to test it in combination with another vaccine from AstraZeneca Plc.