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Oxford study says mixing Covid-19 vaccines gives robust protection

  This study, published on the Lancet pre-print server, means all possible vaccination schedules involving the Oxford-AstraZeneca and  Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines  could potentially be used against Covid-19 Amid the global shortage of the Covid-19 vaccines, a study conducted by Oxford University has found out that alternating doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines generate robust immune responses against the coronavirus. According to the study, ‘mixed’ schedules of these vaccines induced high concentrations of antibodies against the SARS-CoV2 spike IgG protein when doses were administered four weeks apart. This study, published on the Lancet pre-print server, means all possible vaccination schedules involving the  Oxford-AstraZeneca  and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines could potentially be used against Covid-19. “The Com-COV study has evaluated ‘mix and match’ combinations of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines to see to what extent these vaccines can be used in...