At a press conference, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan was asked about the need for COVID-19 boosters to increase protection against the disease. ‘We believe clearly that the data today does not indicate that boosters are needed,’ she said
The comments came just before the U.S. government said it planned to make the booster shots widely available to all Americans starting on Sept. 20 as infections from the Delta variant of the coronavirus rise.
WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, asked about the need for boosters to increase protection against the disease, told a Geneva news conference: "We believe clearly that the data today does not indicate that boosters are needed."A man who had previously been inoculated against the coronavirus disease with Sinovac's Coronavac vaccine, gets a third dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, in the Hospital de Clinicas, in Montevideo, Uruguay August 16, 2021.
Two doses should be given to the most vulnerable worldwide before boosters are administered to those fully-vaccinated, he said, adding: "We are a long, long way from that." Reporting by Michael Shields, Stephanie Nebehay and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi; Editing by Alison WilliamsSubscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.
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