Why more people are getting 2 different coronavirus vaccines
Here are some common questions raised by mix-and-match vaccination. What are the potential benefits? Mixing vaccines — scientists call it “heterologous prime-boost” — is not a new idea, and researchers have experimented with it in fighting a handful of other diseases, including Ebola. Scientists have long theorized that giving people two slightly different vaccines might generate a stronger immune response, perhaps because the vaccines stimulate slightly different parts of the immune system or teach it to recognize different parts of an invading virus. “The argument is that one and ...