Vaccine sites have been told to honour a preference for a J&J booster after a Pfizer course, or the other way around, but there may be practical trouble.
From Wednesday, you should be able to get a mixture of the J&J and Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 in South Africa.
For the far more numerous recipients of the Pfizer vaccine, the window opens on Wednesday. At that point, anyone who received a second dose of Pfizer no more recently than 24 November can ask for their third jab to be of the J&J variety instead.. But though the safety of mix-and-match has been confirmed, experts say the evidence is not yet sufficient to be sure of a clear benefit.
The health system will default to homologous boosters, except where the recipient had an adverse reaction when receiving a primary dose. But anyone can mix and match without providing any reason and just by asking, Buthelezi said in the circular.
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