Australia's medicines watchdog approves Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 booster shots

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Australians will now be able to choose between two types of COVID-19 boosters, after the medical regulator gave provisional approval to the Moderna vaccine to be used as a top-up dose:

More than 500,000 Australians have received their third vaccine dose since the boosters were made available.

The so-called mix-and-match approach "can be used for both initial courses and boosters", the European Medicines Agency and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in a joint statement. "Evidence from studies on heterologous vaccination suggests that the combination of viral vector vaccines and mRNA vaccines produces good levels of antibodies... and a higher T-cell response than using the same vaccine," they said.

Some studies suggested that side effects such as pain, fever, headache and fatigue were stronger from the so-called "mix and match" approach but results were "not consistent", they added.The EU has so far given approval to four COVID-19 vaccines.

 

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Remember, never mix your drugs. Never take experimental drugs. Never trust big pharma. Corruption to the core. Jabs forever for profit. Not health.

Yay! I will go with Moderna.

I choose no vaccines respect it

Great I just bought Moderna shares just like our politicians.

😆 yet another divide.... which one do I get 😆 🤣 ....oh I know....none!

What about NovaVax? big chunk of Aussies holding off getting a jab waiting for it.

Wow! Thats positive for folk in need!

Ah MRNA only, yeah no thanks you can keep your gene therapy

Great my heart injuries, I want astra zenica, that is what I had the first time, I thought mixing was not ok, that’s what the government said only a few months ago, who’s lying.

I want AZ the same as the two I have already had. Another Scomo blunder

Covax19 👏 Why hasn’t the Australian government got behind this Australian maker? Sounds very promising and safe and effective.

Sweden suspends the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for people 30 and under, Denmark for those under 18...but no worries mate Australia will inject anything that moves for pharma.

you can keep my dose.

You can give my booster to some poor kid in Africa. It's your affluence that is causing these mutant strains

Novavax is coming soon too, right? It's a pity we can't get AZ anymore. Studies are showing better l/t cellular response.

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