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Britain will allow mixing of COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions, as fears grow NHS could be overwhelmed
The United Kingdom will allow people to be given shots of different COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions, despite a lack of evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing doses.
Key points:
- The Government is not recommending the mixing of vaccines, which require at least two doses given several weeks apart
- Emergency hospitals built at the start of the outbreak have been reactivated as wards fill up with COVID-19 patients
- COVID-19 has killed more 74,000 people in the UK — the second-highest death toll in Europe
In a departure from other strategies globally, the Government said people could be given a mix-and-match of two COVID-19 shots, for example if the same vaccine dose was out of stock, according to guidelines published on New…
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