A Vaccine Question: Can you get more than one of these competing vaccines?

[Towlie]

I certainly wouldn't want to be a "vaccine hog" and use up more than my fair share of COVID-19 vaccine ...

... but I was wondering, after a person receives the full treatment from one type of vaccine, and perhaps waits a few weeks if necessary, could that person then get a different type of COVID-19 vaccine and derive benefit from both?

And please don't be an ass and talk about ethics or mortality; this is just a hypothetical question. Like I said, I certainly wouldn't want to be a "vaccine hog" and use up more than my fair share of COVID-19 vaccine.

[snowybirdie]

1. What do you think?

Millions can't get vaccine at all, but you think doubling up for yourself is ethical?

[uppityperson]

3. Seriously.

[uppityperson]

2. There's not enough to vaccinate people once. Don't even think of doing this.

For the purely theoretical question, it may or may not. They are focused on the same virus, so it would be like getting boosters, which may target different bits of protein she'll. You may have harsher reactions to the vx as your immune system is ready to jump into action from your prior vx.

No matter though, it's highly unethical to do that while millions can't get their first vx.

[LisaL]

4. It hasn't been tested.

So nobody really knows. You could potentially get a bad immune reaction from combining different vaccines.

[KewlKat]

5. There was a doctor on yesterday talking about the Johnson and Johnson vaccine

Since the effective rate numbers for J&J are lower than Pfizer and Moderna, he said please take the J&J if it’s offered to so you have some immunity and that later on you could always do the Pfizer or Moderna. So to answer your question it would appear that a person could take multiple vaccines.

[Quixote1818]

7. That would make sense to me. I would assume anything biological in the vaccine

is gone from your body in just a few days then all you have is your body's response which is building antibodies.

[Towlie]

8. Thanks, that's exactly what I was wondering about.

 
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I was wondering whether getting an apparently inferior vaccine like Johnson and Johnson would "disqualify" you from getting a better vaccine later on. The question could apply not only to the present vaccines but perhaps also to future vaccines that might be better than what's available today.

I think it's an important question because people might think they have to choose, and they might decide to pass up currently available vaccines and wait for something better.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. J&J might have a booster shot at some point

But all the vaccines do the same things, stimulate an immune response to the covid19 virus. It's just how they do it that's different.

The other vaccines may have boosters as well if the covid19 virus mutates enough to significantly lower their effectiveness.

[bamagal62]

9. That's was I was wondering as welll due to the J&J vaccine. Thanks!

[redstateblues]

6. Several medical talking heads yesterday said

that it would be ok especially if you start with the soon to be available lower efficacy vaccines and then get a higher one when it becomes available