3 hours agoFirst AstraZeneca, Italy's second dose gets Pfizer
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has received the second dose of the coronary vaccine, but unlike the first. The 73-year-old in the first dose was vaccinated with AstraZeneca, but passed to Pfizer - B NTech for his second dose. Draghi's government changed the advice for vaccines earlier this month, saying they [...]
The 73-year-old in the first dose was vaccinated with AstraZeneca, but passed to Pfizer - B NTech for his second dose.
Draghi's government earlier this month changed the advice for vaccines, saying those under 60 should not take the AstraZeneca vaccine because of fear of blood clotting.
The recommendation for those who have already received an AstraZeneca dose to switch to another vaccine sparked a major debate in Italy, if such an approach to combining vaccines was safe, Reuters reports.
