British Researchers Find Mixing Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines Gives A Better Immune System
According to FoxNews, British researchers say that taking one dose of Pfizer and then an additional dose of Moderna nine weeks later actually generated a better immune system reaction instead of just the two doses of Pfizer.
The research, which was performed by students at Oxford University, evaluated the immune system responses of 1,070 patients who took some mixture of the Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Novavax, and Moderna vaccines.
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“Encouragingly, all these schedules generated antibody concentrations above that of the licensed and effective two dose Oxford-AstraZeneca schedule,” Professor Matthew Snape, stated.
“When it comes to cellular immunity, having a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine followed by any of the other study vaccines generates a particularly robust response.”
A dose of Pfizer fulfilled by Novavax generated better outcomes than two doses of AstraZeneca, but a lower immune system reaction than two doses of Pfizer.
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Under recent CDC suggestions, Americans can mix and match vaccines when getting their booster shots.
European Union health officials approved mixing and matching on Tuesday, stating that mixing may “induce an expanded breadth of immune responses.”