Vaccines

Get Ready for the Covid-19 Vaccine Mix-and-Match Dilemma

Imagining a future where people will be tempted to take Vaccine A as well as Vaccine B.

Illustration: Joel Plosz for Bloomberg Businessweek

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.