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WHO for vaccination with two different vaccines: We do not have the appropriate data to document

Place for him coronavirus vaccination with two different vaccines The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that “in the absence of appropriate data”, it cannot recommend changing the Covid vaccine from the first to the second dose.

«There is not enough data to say if this is something that can be done and therefore the body experts concluded that the exchange of vaccines is not something they can recommend at this stage.Said Margaret Harris, his spokeswoman WHERE, during a regular briefing for journalists in Geneva on Friday (9/4).

The spokeswoman recalled, as reported by the Athens News Agency, that this is the position adopted by the WHO Vaccination Advisory Group in February, when it published its recommendations for the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid and before information about a possible link between this vaccine and very rare side effects.

She also stressed that These scientists then called for scientific research on whether one could change vaccines against Covid from the first to the second dose..

With another vaccine the second dose in France for those who did AstraZeneca

People under 55 who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 with a first dose of AstraZeneca will get a second dose with another vaccine, that of Pfizer or that of Moderna was announced today by the French High Authority for Health (HAS).

That’s about 533,000 people in France, according to HAS. The authority had suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people under 55 on March 19 due to rare cases of thrombosis found in Europe. Earlier, however, some, mostly nursing staff, had taken a first dose of the vaccine, which was launched in early February.

“For these individuals, we recommend that a vaccine be given with messenger RNA” for the second dose, 12 weeks apart, HAS President Dominique Le Gildeck told a news conference.

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