FDA Issues Recommendations on Mixing and Matching COVID-19 Boosters
Oct. 22, 2021
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations and data on the efficacy of mixing and matching COVID-19 boosters can be found in a Prevention.com story posted Thursday, Oct. 21.
Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician and professor of internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, is one of the experts quoted in the article.
Dr. Watkins told Prevention that for people who had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine initially, he would suggest that they choose a different vaccine as a booster. He said, “If I had a choice, I’d pick either the Moderna or Pfizer mRNA vaccines as a booster for the Johnson & Johnson due to higher levels of antibodies that result.”