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Chinese health officials consider mixing COVID-19 vaccines to boost efficacy
China’s top disease control official says the country is formally considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines as a way of further boosting vaccine efficacy.
Key points:
- Currently, data on Chinese-made vaccines show they are less effective than others from across the globe
- China is now considering whether it would be more effective to give people two different vaccines
- China has developed five vaccines which have been approved for use
Available data shows Chinese vaccines lag behind others including Pfizer and Moderna in terms of efficacy, but require less stringent temperature controls during storage.
Gao Fu, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Saturday that giving people doses of different vaccines is…
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