• Mix-and-match trial finds additional dos

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    Mix-and-match trial finds additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine safe, immunogenic
    Study assessed dose in adults fully vaccinated with any EUA or approved COVID-19 vaccine

    Date:
    January 26, 2022
    Source:
    NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    Summary:
    In adults who had previously received a full regimen of any of
    three COVID-19 vaccines granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
    or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an additional
    booster dose of any of these vaccines was safe and prompted an
    immune response, according to preliminary clinical trial results.



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    In adults who had previously received a full regimen of any of three
    COVID-19 vaccines granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or approved by
    the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an additional booster dose of any
    of these vaccines was safe and prompted an immune response, according to preliminary clinical trial results reported in The New England Journal
    of Medicine. The findings served as the basis for recommendations by
    the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in late fall
    2021 to permit mix-and-match COVID-19 booster vaccinations in the United States. Additional data from the ongoing Phase 1/2 trial, sponsored by
    the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part
    of the National Institutes of Health, are expected in the coming months.


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    The new report describes findings from 458 adults who had been fully
    vaccinated with any of three EUA COVID-19 vaccines at least 12 weeks
    prior to enrollment and who had no reported history of SARS-CoV-2
    infection. At enrollment, a single booster dose was administered to
    each participant: 150 received Janssen/ Johnson & Johnson's Ad26.COV2.S vaccine; 154 received Moderna's mRNA-1273 vaccine; and 154 received Pfizer-BioNTech's BNT162b2 vaccine. Depending on which primary vaccine
    regimen a participant had received, the booster vaccine was either
    different (mixed, or heterologous) than or the same (matched, or
    homologous) as the original vaccine.

    The trial participants kept diaries of any side effects. More than half of participants reported headache, pain at the injection site, muscle aches
    and malaise. No serious vaccine-related adverse events were reported.

    All combinations of primary and booster vaccine resulted in increased neutralizing antibody levels (ranging from 4.2- to 76-fold higher
    levels than those detected prior to boost.) Likewise, all primary-boost combinations increased binding antibody levels 4.6- to 56-fold. For each primary EUA COVID- 19 vaccine, heterologous boosts elicited similar
    or higher antibody responses as compared to responses to a homologous
    booster. Cellular responses (CD4 and CD8 T cell) also increased in all
    but the homologous Ad26.CoV2.S-boosted group, though CD8+ T cells were
    highest at baseline in those participants who had received the Ad26.CoV2.S
    EUA vaccine.

    Taken together, the investigators concluded, "these data strongly suggest
    that homologous and heterologous booster vaccine will increase protective efficacy against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection." These interim
    results cover available immunogenicity data through the initial 29 days following booster vaccination. Investigators will continue to follow participants for one year to assess what impact booster vaccination has
    on longer-term immune responses. Additional arms of the trial may test
    other investigational, EUA or FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines and/or
    vaccines based on SARS-CoV-2 variants as the boosting vaccine.

    The trial began in May 2021 and is continuing to enroll participants. Its principal investigators are Robert L. Atmar, M.D., of Baylor College
    of Medicine, Houston; and Kirsten E. Lyke, M.D., of the University of
    Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. It is being conducted through
    NIAID's Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium, a clinical
    trials network that encompasses the Institute's longstanding Vaccine
    and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs). Additional information about
    the trial, including a listing of trial sites enrolling volunteers,
    is available at ClinicalTrials.gov using the identifier NCT04889209.

    NIAID grants supporting this research were UM1AI48372, UM1AI148373, UM1AI148450, UM1AI148452, UM1AI148573, UM1AI148574, UM1AI148575,
    UM1AI148576, UM1AI148684 and UM1AI148689. Contract 75N93019C00050 from
    the NIAID Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVICs)
    also provided support.

    ========================================================================== Story Source: Materials provided by NIH/National_Institute_of_Allergy_and_Infectious Diseases. Note: Content
    may be edited for style and length.


    ========================================================================== Journal Reference:
    1. Robert L. Atmar, Kirsten E. Lyke, Meagan E. Deming, Lisa A. Jackson,
    Angela R. Branche, Hana M. El Sahly, Christina A. Rostad, Judith M.

    Martin, Christine Johnston, Richard E. Rupp, Mark J. Mulligan,
    Rebecca C.

    Brady, Robert W. Frenck, Marti'n Ba"cker, Angelica C. Kottkamp,
    Tara M.

    Babu, Kumaravel Rajakumar, Srilatha Edupuganti, David Dobrzynski,
    Rhea N.

    Coler, Christine M. Posavad, Janet I. Archer, Sonja Crandon,
    Seema U.

    Nayak, Daniel Szydlo, Jillian A. Zemanek, Clara P. Dominguez Islas,
    Elizabeth R. Brown, Mehul S. Suthar, M. Juliana McElrath, Adrian B.

    McDermott, Sarah E. O'Connell, David C. Montefiori, Amanda Eaton,
    Kathleen M. Neuzil, David S. Stephens, Paul C. Roberts, John
    H. Beigel.

    Homologous and Heterologous Covid-19 Booster Vaccinations. New
    England Journal of Medicine, 2022; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2116414 ==========================================================================

    Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220126170601.htm

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