AstraZeneca, Vaia: “Mix vaccines? Trust the science”

With the vaccine mix, and the second dose of Pfizer or Moderna after the first dose of AstraZeneca, “our ability to form antibodies” could be “even enhanced”. Francesco Vaia, health director of the Spallanzani Institute, guest of ‘E-twenty’ on Sky Tg24 thus expresses himself on the mix of vaccines that will be adopted after the stop for AstraZeneca in subjects under 60: those who received the first dose of AstraZeneca, in this age group will receive a dose of Pfizer or Moderna. “We must avoid questioning the vaccine tool” and citizens “must have confidence” for a second dose different from the first. “Those who have taken the first dose of AstraZeneca under sixty will be vaccinated with a second dose of Rna”, he says. “All vaccines are good – he says again – to avoid serious illness and hospitalization, it depends on how we use them and in which age group. All vaccines can have adverse reactions, obviously in ever smaller sizes, but all vaccines can give us adverse reactions. And all vaccines have a low, very low percentage of chance of causing us to have some further contagion , which does not give us serious illness, gives us very few symptoms. And therefore absolutely avoids the most important danger of hospitalization and the consequent possible access to resuscitation and mortality “.” Now finally the decision has been made: all those who are under the age of sixty should not do AstraZeneca, anyone who is over sixty can do AstraZeneca in both first and second doses. made the first dose of Astrazeneca and who are under sixty years we could inoculate another messenger rna vaccine “, he explains further.” There is no problem, three months ago highly authoritative English and Spanish colleagues had carried out a study of heterologous vaccination, between the first dose of an adenovirus vaccine and the second dose of an RNA vaccine and these colleagues saw that our ability to form antibodies was even enhanced. So – Vaiadico concluded to the citizens: trust science, we finally have a clear line “.