India city Mumbai vaccine platform Immunic India city Mumbai

Clarity on mixing covid jabs likely by Jan

Reading now: 691
www.livemint.com

MUMBAI : Answers to whether India should mix covid-19 vaccines and give booster doses could be in by the end of January, as a study to check their effectiveness nears its last stage.

CMC Vellore is nearing the end of its study on mixing doses, including of Covaxin and Covishield, said Gagandeep Kang, leading virologist and professor at the medical research institution.

Research has shown that mixing two different vaccine platforms such as an mRNA platform and an adenovirus platform (eg; Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines) provides better immune response to the SARS CoV-2 virus.

India’s study, the first of its kind, will find out whether the inactivated and adenovirus platforms also offer similar response.

Read more on livemint.com
The website covid-19.rehab is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA