How About Taking Pfizer As Your First Dose And Moderna As Your Second Vaccine dose?

By Raj
India
June 20, 2021 4:17am CST
Few weeks back I came to know about this thing but wasn't able to discuss it here but I thought I should discuss today. So the article said that there's an agreement in different countries that they will use mix vaccine against Covid-19 like first dose will be of different vaccine and second of different like I posted in the title and many countries have approved it but don't think it happened or I missed the news. Are you aware if mixed vaccines were used on people against Covid-19?
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• India
20 Jun 21
Indian govt says not to do that.
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• India
20 Jun 21
Yes but they are still short of vaccines
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• India
20 Jun 21
@Butterfingers Agreed, but not every medical professionals recommends that. they still have to test the side effects of it.
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• India
20 Jun 21
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
20 Jun 21
Different governments are now testing to see if it would be better for younger people to take a dose of one vaccine and then a dose of a different vaccine. "France’s health regulator recommends that people under the age of 55 who have received their first dose of AstraZeneca should get Pfizer or Moderna for their second shot. It advises a gap of 12 weeks between these first and second shots in these instances. The regulator stated there is no reason to fear specific adverse events if you had the first AstraZeneca jab and then switch to an mRNA jab for the second." Excerpt taken from:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/can-you-mix-and-match-covid-vaccines-heres-what-we-know-so-far.html
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
20 Jun 21
@DaddyEvil Then, instead of mixing why not fund AstraZeneca to fix the issues in its vaccine and get its production more. There are more issues here like what one of the (or is it the largest?)largest vaccine makers in the world-Serum Institute of India(SII) faced with raw material and other shortages and regulatory hurdles.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
20 Jun 21
@myklj999 That's why all the governments are supposed to be doing studies on this.
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
20 Jun 21
@DaddyEvil Here we do not have a choice as yet. So we have to take whatever comes our way.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
21 Jun 21
As you can see there are mixed views on this mixture. LOL. Logically, I should think it may not be such a good idea. The reason is... say...a virus has A to Z genes. You are blocking say PQR with Pfizer. With Moderna you may be blocking XYZ. This means the PQR defense becomes weaker...after sometime and can get stronger as time passes by. Same with XYZ. HOWEVER...if the combo is PQR and RST ..then we may have interesting stuff. It pretty much depends upon which part of the virus is doing the damage, and is there some common essential factor. Unless you wanna be a guinea pig, I would advise against it.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
21 Jun 21
@Butterfingers Imagine a measuring tape. Use a used chewing gum to block three consecutive numbers or random numbers. That becomes the first vaccine. It is given in smaller doses so that your immune system develops some army against it. If you are strong ..it will be overpowered in no time, and you won't feel the side effects. If not side effects will be there. Once the immune system has identified how to beat a virus with blocked numbers ..it stores the methodology in cytoplasm as code for a while depending upon the virus of course. Now imagine another set of same virus tape with different numbers blocked. You are confusing your own immune system, right? This is not supposed to happen screams your immune system...remember even if the blocked numbers are there on each tape, the virus is still a virus, and immune system has to fight the other parts of the virus.
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• India
22 Jun 21
@vandana7 Yes well said
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• India
21 Jun 21
Haha interesting observations but not sure how this works
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@Juliaacv (48442)
• Canada
20 Jun 21
Here if you start with one vaccine your second will also be the same one. I started with Phizer and my second dose will be Phizer, our son did the same with Moderna. I am not sure how they will handle the booster shots, I suppose that it will be a few months before I am aware of that.
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• India
20 Jun 21
I guess even the authorities are confused and not sure how things will work
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
20 Jun 21
Yes I know that in Italy they are using mixed vaccine because they used AstraZeneca than later was found dangerous for people over 60... so they pretend that it's more effective.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
20 Jun 21
@Butterfingers It is not dangerous, but it is surely not true that it is better.
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• India
20 Jun 21
Yes the countries which don't have the enough stock is doing this but but sure if it's safe
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• India
20 Jun 21
@LadyDuck Yes I guess there will be lot of research and it'll take time
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@DianneN (246849)
• United States
21 Jun 21
No mixing here. I see you received many explanations.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
23 Jun 21
@DianneN I agree.
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@DianneN (246849)
• United States
22 Jun 21
@Butterfingers If it works and saves lives, then good!
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• India
22 Jun 21
Not here too but in different countries they have agreed to mix
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Jun 21
Here they are using the same vaccine in most cases. Some people received AstraZeneca as the first vaccine (before we stopped using them) and their second vaccine was a different type. They didn't plan it that way, but they had to find a solution since they had already started using the AstraZeneca vaccine. In all other cases we use Pfizer + Pfizer or Moderna + Moderna.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Jun 21
@Butterfingers I agree. I think it is best to use the same vaccine.
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• India
20 Jun 21
I think the better way is to take both doses of same vaccine
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• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jun 21
Try and get the same vaccine if you can hope you get two the same.
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• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jun 21
@Butterfingers Good for you then.
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• India
20 Jun 21
In India we are getting same vaccine in both doses
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@paigea (35693)
• Canada
20 Jun 21
I am pretty sure they have mixed them here in Canada for some people. I got the same both times. I want all of them, I want all the protection
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@paigea (35693)
• Canada
21 Jun 21
@Butterfingers I got pfizer
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• India
21 Jun 21
@paigea Good
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• India
20 Jun 21
Which vaccine you took?
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@kobesbuddy (74571)
• East Tawas, Michigan
20 Jun 21
This is dangerous, I'd never want to receive two different vaccines!
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@kobesbuddy (74571)
• East Tawas, Michigan
21 Jun 21
@Butterfingers They have no idea what the results could be!
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• India
21 Jun 21
Me too not sure why they are even going with it
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• Nairobi, Kenya
20 Jun 21
I wasn't aware but thanks to your post. Won't that be dangerous?
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• Nairobi, Kenya
21 Jun 21
@Butterfingers that's okay . I personally won't advice anyone to allow themselves be used as an experiment
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• India
20 Jun 21
Thanks. I'm not sure and I think they are still researching
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@Rashnag (30598)
• Surat, India
21 Jun 21
I didn't knew. No idea dear. Have a good day
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@Rashnag (30598)
• Surat, India
22 Jun 21
@Butterfingers your welcome
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• India
21 Jun 21
Thanks. Thankfully no such thing in India
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@ladyhero (3846)
• Indonesia
21 Jun 21
I just heard from your post here, is it harmless? and is there already a country that uses this method? Indonesia still continues to use Sinovac as a vaccine
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• India
21 Jun 21
I think few countries have started like France
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@ladyhero (3846)
• Indonesia
22 Jun 21
@Butterfingers ok i hope no complication
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@ankurdini (1791)
20 Jun 21
These types news, i still not listen
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• India
21 Jun 21
@ankurdini this is actually not a fake story
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• India
21 Jun 21
Good you ignore
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@ankurdini (1791)
21 Jun 21
@Butterfingers yea, we can't much believe on news channel.
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@popciclecold (35103)
• United States
20 Jun 21
No, I had no idea, we were told if you got Moderna first you have to get Moderna second. My first time hearing this. Thanks for sharing.
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• United States
22 Jun 21
@Butterfingers I heard that they should not mix them.
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• India
21 Jun 21
This should be done this way only but not sure why they planned to mix
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• India
22 Jun 21
@popciclecold yes they shouldn't
@snowy22315 (169966)
• United States
21 Jun 21
I think in general it is not recommended but some vaccine is better than no vaccine, the way I look at it.
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• India
22 Jun 21
Not a bad way to look at it and hopefully through research can help us make a decision
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
20 Jun 21
There is indeed a big talk going on around Vaccine mixing. However. this should be done after a thorough scientific research and observing side effects. That means ideally such a study should be at least 9 months to 1 year. Before that, it is better that production of all approved vaccines in the world be increased and given to more and more people, especially in the under-developed nations.
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@ptrikha_2 (45472)
• India
20 Jun 21
@Butterfingers In some cases, it can be done if they have some similar composition or working. However, in some cases, it can cause some adverse effects.
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• India
20 Jun 21
Yes that's correct and I am not sure why some of the countries approved this
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
20 Jun 21
Even i heard about this and our government was not ready to accept , but after that i did not follow the news ..because i did not even have the first dose so did not bother about that ,and India is mostly funding Covishield as we know , so it will support the same
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• India
20 Jun 21
Yes India may not go for the mixing but let's see
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• United States
21 Jun 21
I don't think it's advisable to mix vaccines but I'm not an expert.
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• India
22 Jun 21
Yes we can have our opinions but we are not the experts or researchers
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@arunima25 (85314)
• Bangalore, India
21 Jun 21
There was a big hue and cry when one lady got two different shots due to some confusion there. But then many new theories and speculations are doing rounds that mixing the vaccines, I mean having two different ones for two shots might be more effective. Well, let's wait and watch.
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@arunima25 (85314)
• Bangalore, India
23 Jun 21
@Butterfingers Everything around this virus is still in research and nothing is known for sure. This one is recent and a mysterious one. It is so much different from the other viruses that we have known so far. It is quite a challenging task.
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• India
23 Jun 21
@arunima25 correct on that
• India
21 Jun 21
Yes but it'll take a longer research
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