The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed vaccination guidelines to allow patients to mix different coronavirus vaccines. Reported by the New York Times.
According to the new guidelines, patients will be able to swap one US-approved COVID-19 drug for another between two doses in “exceptional situations.” At the same time, the department noted that the issue of safety and effectiveness of mixing vaccines has not been studied.
In addition, the center allows an increase in the interval between doses of vaccine up to six weeks in case it is not possible to administer a second dose earlier.
As explained by CDC spokesman Kristen Nordland, the intention is not to offer people something different, but to give doctors flexibility in exceptional circumstances. At the same time, the publication emphasizes that earlier the center strictly adhered to the recommendations of its advisory committee, which separately indicated that vaccines should not be mixed.
Earlier it was reported that an employee of a medical center in the United States deliberately spoiled more than five hundred doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. He took 57 packages of vaccine out of the refrigerator and left them in obviously inappropriate conditions. The medication had to be thrown away.
The United States leads the world in the number of people infected with coronavirus and the number of deaths. According to the latest data, more than 24.8 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the country, more than 413 thousand infected have died.