Mixing vaccines may give even more protection against SARS-CoV-2 and consequently, against COVID-19. At least that’s what a new study argues.

Speaking to the Expresso newspaper, Luís Delgado, a researcher from CINTESIS – Center for Health Technologies and Services Research and a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, explains that “vaccines use different ways” to deliver a virus protein.

The expert warns, however, that the conclusions drawn in a study on a certain vaccine combination cannot be generalized to other combinations, i.e., the result may not always be the same.

Read the full piece in the printed edition of the Expresso.