The side effects of mixing two vaccine brands are not clear

Liputan6.com, Jakarta The mixing event of the two brands vaccine accidentally happened several times. However, it is not clear what the side effects of mixing these two different vaccine brands are.

This was revealed by infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security as quoted from the page Prevention. According to him, the side effects experienced in the case of mixing vaccine the possibility is not much different from the usual vaccine. The benefits of the vaccine itself can still be obtained.

Meanwhile, William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, stressed that vaccine mixing and matching had not been studied explicitly. However, the incidence of receiving a second dose of vaccine that is different from the first dose is still likely to continue.

“This is not the first time, by any means – whether by accident or because someone got the vaccine in one place and then ended up in another place that had a different vaccine,” said Schaffner.

In early April, a woman in Oregon, United States named, accidentally received the second COVID-19 vaccine from the brand Moderna, after her first injection using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. As a precautionary measure, the woman who has a three-week-old baby is advised to stop breastfeeding her baby.

The same thing happened to Craig Richards from New Hampshire. On his first injection he received the Moderna vaccine. However, during the second injection, he received an injection of Pfizer.

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