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World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan attends a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, July 3, 2020 Fabrice Coffrini / Piscine via REUTERS
GENEVA, July 12 (Reuters) – The chief scientist of the World Health Organization on Monday advised against mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, calling it a “dangerous trend” because there had little data available on health impact.
“It’s a bit of a dangerous trend here. We’re in an area with no data and no evidence when it comes to mix and match,” Soumya Swaminathan said in an online briefing.
“It will be a chaotic situation in countries if citizens start to decide when and who to take a second, third and fourth dose.”
Reporting by Emma Farge and John Revill; Editing by Hugh Lawson
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