Mix vaccines, Gismondo: “If I did it I wouldn’t be calm”

“I don’t know if it is ‘a dangerous precedent'” the green light from the Italian drug agency Aifa to the mix of anti-Covid vaccines, as the former director general of the national regulatory body, Luca a Pani, defined it. “But it certainly doesn’t appear to be founded on solid scientific evidence.” This is the opinion of Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the Laboratory of clinical microbiology, virology and diagnostics of bioemergencies at the Sacco hospital in Milan. But if she had received a first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, would the expert be given the booster with an mRna product in peace? “I’m not sure about the efficacy – replies Adnkronos Salute – while I would be more calm about the side effects”. So you don’t feel comfortable with the efficacy data? “They are not at all”, Gismondo reiterates, underlining that at the moment we are talking about “800 cases treated and published”.