WHO: No evidence that healthy children, teens need COVID-19 boosters
WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on July 3, 2020. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
There's no evidence that healthy children and adolescents need COVID-19 boosters shots, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said at aSwaminathan said a WHO advisory group will gather this week to discuss how nations should distribute booster shots. The organization hasfor wealthy countries with large vaccine supplies to forgo booster shots as a global vaccine disparity persists.
"[P]utting all of this together, the aim is to protect the most vulnerable, to protect those at highest risk of severe disease and dying," Swaminathan said, singling out the elderly, immunocompromised and health care workers. "There is no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters," Swaminathan said. "No evidence at all."Swaminathan said many of the vaccines have shown a reduction in vaccine immunity against the Omicron variant, but that resulting breakthrough infections by and large do not result in severe illness.
Some evidence suggests that vaccine protection against severe illness is also slightly reduced, but more studies are needed in this area, she added.
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