Useful protection or not warranted? Third Covid-19 jab debate rages | Malay Mail

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PARIS, Sept 10 — Should a third dose of Covid vaccine be recommended for the general population?  Some say it’s vital to boosting immunity as the Delta variant spreads, while others say precious vaccines should go to countries — mostly in the Global South — where most people haven’t...

PARIS, Sept 10 — Should a third dose of Covid vaccine be recommended for the general population? Some say it’s vital to boosting immunity as the Delta variant spreads, while others say precious vaccines should go to countries — mostly in the Global South — where most people haven’t even had their first jab.

The US plans to launch a booster shot distribution campaign for all Americans with Pfizer and Moderna shots.“We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists Wednesday. Studies show that these patients’ immune systems do not produce a significant amount of antibodies when they receive the standard vaccine dosage.

“That might be a bit smarter in terms of science,” added the doctor, who is a member of French scientific integrity watchdog, On the Side of Science.The question of unequal vaccine access raised by the WHO is not only an ethical issue but a practical one, say experts. “Foreign epidemics could generate new variants that could be even more contagious, virulent, and resistant to current vaccines,” he said.

 

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