India
Cyrus Poonawalla: “No need to mix 2 different vaccines”
Serum Institute of India (SII) chairman Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, whose firm makes the Covishield vaccine, said that he is not in favour of administering two different coronavirus vaccines for better efficacy.
He received the Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune and spoke to reporters.
When asked about a recent ICMR study that a cocktail of Covishield and Covaxin could generate better immunity, he said, “I am against the mixing of two different vaccines. There is no need to mix two different vaccines.”
“If cocktail vaccines are administered and if the result is not good, then SII may say that another vaccine was not good, vice versa, the other company might say that since you mixed Serum’s vaccine, it did not give desired results,” Mr Poonawalla added.