Will it be dangerous to get 2 different Covid 19 vaccines?

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Thai Nephew hopes he can get back to LOS in early January and he can get the vaccine where he currently is free probably mid December.

 

He asks whether it would be dangerous to also get a different vaccine quickly on arrival home in LOS?

 

Looking for serious comments from folks who are medically/scientifically knowledgeable on this subject. Thanks.

 

No questions thanks about his current location etc. 

[baansgr]

6 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Thai Nephew hopes he can get back to LOS in early January and he can get the vaccine where he currently is free probably mid December.

 

He asks whether it would be dangerous to also get a different vaccine quickly on arrival home in LOS?

 

Looking for serious comments from folks who are medically/scientifically knowledgeable on this subject. Thanks.

 

No questions thanks about his current location etc. 

Although some vaccines have side effects I doubt there are any concerns the patient having other vaccines at the same time or later date. Hep B, Typhoid, Tetanus, all at the same time have been admninistrated without problems. 

[thaibeachlovers]

Such questions should be answered by a health professional that actually knows, not a group of anonymous posters on a forum, IMO.

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57 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Such questions should be answered by a health professional that actually knows, not a group of anonymous posters on a forum, IMO.

Agree! And I'm hoping one of the health professionals on TV will reply. 

[lkv]

Isn't it better to Google, like I did, and get professional opinions on the matter?

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/science/taking-more-than-one-vaccine-at-a-time-doesnt-hurt.html

 

 

“It is considered perfectly safe to administer multiple shots, often up to seven, at the same time to travelers of all age groups,” said Dr. Ole Vielemeyer, an infectious-disease specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College.

The body is continually challenged by many of the external stimuli called antigens, either inhaled or ingested, and continuously reacts by making antibodies and disease-fighting immune cells, Dr. Vielemeyer said. The specific antigens given in vaccines represent only a small portion of the daily stimuli the immune system has to deal with.

“Thus,” he said, “multiple shots will not overwhelm the system and do not cause us to become more susceptible to other infections, like the cold or the flu.” As intended, however, they promote the production of protective antibodies or immune cells, or both.

Edited November 10, 2020 by lkv

[LomSak27]

You might wait until they actually have a vaccine ready to go to get concrete info on that.  They are still in development right now, in spite of the good news from pfizer and the German co. the other day. In the bad news department, the chinese vaccine tests were halted yesterday in Brazil after adverse reactions. That has now been stated as the death of a volunteer.

 

Yes you can and do get multiple vaccine shots at the same time, but these are tested and known vaccines, for different disease's. Getting jabbed with Gamma Globulin, Typhoid and Cholera at the same time was par for the course if working OS decades back  and no big deal . Might be different for a new vaccine and doubling it with another vaccine made for the same virus. 

 

 That information will be available when they actually start giving it. Hang in there.

 

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29 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

You might wait until they actually have a vaccine ready to go to get concrete info on that.  They are still in development right now, in spite of the good news from pfizer and the German co. the other day. In the bad news department, the chinese vaccine tests were halted yesterday in Brazil after adverse reactions. That has now been stated as the death of a volunteer.

 

Yes you can and do get multiple vaccine shots at the same time, but these are tested and known vaccines, for different disease's. Getting jabbed with Gamma Globulin, Typhoid and Cholera at the same time was par for the course if working OS decades back  and no big deal . Might be different for a new vaccine and doubling it with another vaccine made for the same virus. 

 

 That information will be available when they actually start giving it. Hang in there.

 

Another example. Fifty + years ago I went into national service when the Vietnam war was happening.

 

We attended the mass immunization event, all lined up close together in underwear, looking at the back of the guy in front. Two platoons at a time, so about 100 recruits.

 

A team of nurses went along either side of the line and placed hypodermic needles into left and right upper arm but without the section containing the serum and the plunger.

 

Then more nurses came along both sides of the line attached a serum cylinder with serum and pushed the plunger part down to force the serum into the arm then removed it leaving the needle still in both left and right arms.

 

From memory I think it was about 8 different cylinders of serum into left arm and same into right arm.

 

All done we were told to pull the hypodermic needles out of each arm and throw them into a bucket.

 

We were also told if the man in front of you faints quickly hold your arms out in front and catch the guy before he falls down.

 

This did happen maybe twice. One guy who fainted was a football hero from my home town who was always loud and over-confident and since day one of recruit training had harassed other recruits who were last in 2 mile/5 mile runs and other activities. After fainting the war veteran trainers gave him hell often yelling at him 'don't faint, don't faint' and more.

 

99% of the recruits, me incl., had no adverse reactions to the multiple jabs. But a dr. mentioned later that this practice was unsafe because it was quite likely an air bubble would be injected before the actual serum every time the practice was repeated.

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1 hour ago, scorecard said:

Another example. Fifty + years ago I went into national service in the Vietnam war era. 

 

In boot camp we attended mass immunization, all lined up close together in underwear, looking at the back of the guy in front. Two platoons at a time, so about 100 recruits.

 

A team of nurses went along either side of the line and placed hypodermic needles into left and right upper arm but without the section containing the serum and the plunger.

 

Then more nurses came along both sides of the line attached a serum cylinder with serum and pushed the plunger part down to force the serum into the arm then removed it leaving the needle still in both left and right arms.

 

From memory I think it was about 8 different cylinders of serum into left arm and same into right arm.

 

All done we were told to pull the hypodermic needles out of each arm and throw them into a bucket.

 

We were also told if the man in front of you faints quickly hold your arms out in front and catch the guy before he falls down.

 

This did happen maybe twice. One guy who fainted was a football hero from my home town who was always loud and over-confident and since day one of recruit training had harassed other recruits who were last in 2 mile/5 mile runs and other activities. After fainting the war veteran trainers gave him hell often yelling at him 'don't faint, don't faint' and more.

 

99% of the recruits, me incl., had no adverse reactions to the multiple jabs. But a dr. mentioned later that this practice was unsafe because it was quite likely an air bubble would be injected before the actual serum every time the practice was repeated.