
Sumary of ‘People should not lose confidence!’ – Professor urges people to get AstraZeneca vaccine:
- Oxford has said that it will also trial combinations of its COVID-19 vaccine with the Russian coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, which uses harmless viruses to shuttle components of the coronavirus into cells..
- Researchers think that combining two vaccines could strengthen immune responses by harnessing the best features of each..
- That would be particularly desirable now that vaccine developers are combating coronavirus variants that seem to be partially resistant to certain immune responses, said Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts..
- “It possible that responses might be better than what either vaccine can achieve on its own,”…