మిక్స్ అండ్ మ్యాచ్ వాక్సిన్ ల దిశగా || Mix And Match Vaccines More Effective? ||
Explained: Why mix two different Covid-19 vaccines, or why not
Worldwide, studies are under way to understand if a combination of two different vaccines can outperform two doses of the same vaccine. Experts caution, however, that mixing should not be randomly done but should be based on understanding multiple issues.
Mixing Covishield and Covaxin, the two main vaccines against Covid-19 in use in India, has found by a new ICMR study to be safe and also to provide better immunity. The two use different platforms: Covishield is an adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine, while Covaxin is an inactivated whole virus vaccine.
Worldwide, studies are under way to understand if a combination of two different vaccines can outperform two doses of the same vaccine. Experts caution, however, that mixing should not be randomly done but should be based on understanding multiple issues.
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-mix-two-different-vaccines-or-why-not-icmr-study-covishield-and-covaxin-7448040/
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