Pune: Serum Institute of India (sii) President Cyrus Poonawalla On Friday, he said he was not in favor of having two separate coronavirus vaccines for better efficacy.
Poonawalla, whose firm manufactures Cowishield Talking to reporters after receiving the vaccine Lokmanya Tilak National Award.
“I am against mixing two different vaccines. There is no need to mix two different vaccines,” he said when asked about a recent ICMR study that found Covishield and covaxin May produce better immunity.
Poonawalla said, “If cocktail vaccines are administered and the result is not good, SII may say that another vaccine was not good, conversely, another company may say that since you mixed the serum vaccine, So it did not give the desired results,” Poonawalla said. . He said the effectiveness of this approach has not been proven in field trials involving thousands of participants.
a study by Indian council of medical research This included 98 people, 18 of whom had inadvertently received Covishield as the first dose and Covaxin as the second dose in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that the combination of vaccines yielded better immunogenicity.
Poonawalla, whose firm manufactures Cowishield Talking to reporters after receiving the vaccine Lokmanya Tilak National Award.
“I am against mixing two different vaccines. There is no need to mix two different vaccines,” he said when asked about a recent ICMR study that found Covishield and covaxin May produce better immunity.
Poonawalla said, “If cocktail vaccines are administered and the result is not good, SII may say that another vaccine was not good, conversely, another company may say that since you mixed the serum vaccine, So it did not give the desired results,” Poonawalla said. . He said the effectiveness of this approach has not been proven in field trials involving thousands of participants.
a study by Indian council of medical research This included 98 people, 18 of whom had inadvertently received Covishield as the first dose and Covaxin as the second dose in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that the combination of vaccines yielded better immunogenicity.
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