Germany issues World's strongest recommendation for mixing Covid-19 vaccines

[Pluvious]

Context: My understanding of the J&J vaccine is that both it and AstraZeneca
are Adenovirus vaccines, where Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are mRNA.

Germany has issued what appears to be the strongest recommendation anywhere for the mixing of Covid-19 vaccines on efficacy grounds.

The German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) said Thursday that people who receive a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine "should get an mRNA vaccine as their second dose, regardless of their age."

This makes Germany one of the first countries to strongly recommend that people who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca receive either a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as their second dose.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel helped pave the way for mixed vaccine use when she received the Moderna shot in June as her second dose following a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/02/health/germany-covid-vaccines-mixing-intl/index.html

[lagomorph777]

1. Very interesting. Look forward to seeing how that goes.

[tanyev]

2. Interesting.

Whatever works.

[WarGamer]

3. For that Shot #2...

Take the week off, lol...

I felt like I had the FLU for 24 hrs and a cold for 5 more days.

[GulfCoast66]

7. That's bad luck. I had no side effects. Hardly a sore arm.

Your immune system might be better than mine since it had such a reaction. A friend 10 years younger than me was down for a day.

Hope your good to go now.

[WarGamer]

8. Yup, all good

I was arrogant after the first shot, nothing other than a sore arm for 36h

But sure enough I had a 103 fever the first night after shot #2, felt like I was ran over by a truck and suffered from fatigue and body aches for a week...

Totally worth it. Free again!!!!!!!!!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Moderna rocks!

Having said that I can't decide whether it just tastes great or is less filling?


Thanks for the thread Pluvious.

[Yavin4]

6. Taste great! n/t

[SYFROYH]

5. I was wondering about this but didn't want to sound like an idiot.

Thanks for posting