Work AbsencesThe study didn’t point to any safety issues and the stronger side effects vanished after a few days, he said on a conference call.
The results suggest, however, that mixed dose schedules could result in an increase in work absences the day after immunization, according to Snape.“You wouldn’t want to immunize a ward full of nurses with a mixed schedule on the same day," he said.About 10% of participants who got mixed doses reported severe fatigue, for instance, compared with about 3% for those inoculated with a single type of vaccine, the research shows.All participants in the study are aged 50 and over.