WHO says no evidence healthy children, adolescents need COVID-19 boosters

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WHO experts are meeting this week to consider how countries should consider giving boosters to their populations.

- There is no evidence at present that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Tuesday.

"There is no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters. No evidence at all," she said. Last week Germany became the latest country to recommend that all children between ages of 12 and 17 receive a COVID-19 booster shot. Hungary has also done so.

 

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