Journalism at Bloomberg News is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, multi-time-zone endeavor where stories often begin with simple queries. An impromptu chat between a few reporters and editors recently imagined a hopefully not-so-distant future with multiple, safe, functional coronavirus vaccines—and some potential dilemmas. Please note that this is not medical advice. —The Editors
PETER COY
New York Bloomberg Businessweek economics editor
Have we written anything on the possibility of a vaccine cocktail—i.e., could people get more protection by taking multiple vaccines? I guess this would depend on whether the vaccines respond to different targets or have different mechanisms of action.
You can see why it would be hard to test the safety and efficacy of a vaccine cocktail. Pharma companies don’t have an incentive to cooperate by testing their vaccines jointly.
JASON GALE
Melbourne Senior editor, Asia editing hub
It’s going to be virtually impossible to test the safety and efficacy of vaccine cocktails in animals, let alone people. My understanding is that labs doing animal studies are overloaded already, and who’s going to fund the research? Without proof-of-principle animal studies, it’s hard to see cocktails being tested in people.
But it sort of makes sense. The vaccines in development use different approaches and often different bits of the spike protein. We know already that an initial priming shot seems to elicit a better response.
MICHELLE CORTEZ
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