This so-called heterologous vaccination scheme is now clearly recommended by the medical association. On Monday, the National Vaccination Committee (NIG) updated its vaccination application recommendation, according to which cross-vaccinations should be offered on patient request. These are already being carried out in several countries. “I would recommend choosing an mRNA vaccine as a second vaccination,” said Thomas Szekeres, President of the Austrian Medical Association. The study results “are very encouraging. But it doesn’t matter if you get the same vaccine twice. It is important that you get twice,” said the President of the Medical Association.
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New vaccination recommendations
In its updated application recommendation for the corona vaccination, the NIG has also added the passage that physical rest is recommended three days after the vaccination. In addition, vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 recovered people is now clearly recommended as early as four weeks after infection or illness. The reason is the spread of the delta variant.
For the first time, the National Vaccination Committee has also decided on the procedure for people who have been vaccinated with vaccines that are not approved in the EU. These include the Russian vaccine Sputnik and the Chinese Sinopharm. For people who have been immunized with such vaccines, “post-vaccination with an EU-approved vaccine can be considered,” writes the NIG. So far, four vaccines have been approved in the EU: The mRNA vaccines from BioNTech / Pfizer and Moderna and the vector vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.
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