Amid the reports of more infectious COVID-19 variants, many scientists and health experts are recommending a combination of COVID-19 vaccine which is believed to offer protection against variants and longer immunity.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan stated that the combination of Covid-19 vaccines seems to be working well against coronavirus variants across the globe.
“It seems to be working well, this concept of heterologous prime-boost. This opens up the opportunity for countries that have vaccinated people with one vaccine and now are waiting for the second dose they have run out of, to potentially be able to use a different platform vaccine,” said the World Health Organization’s chief scientist.
As per a report in Bloomberg, Soumya Swaminathan revealed that early data from the UK, Spain and Germany suggest a “mix-and-match” regimen, which is using two different types of vaccines, generates more pain, fever and other minor side effects compared with two doses of the same inoculation.
