WHO said it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses
A medical syringe of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is administered On Wednesday, January 12, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. —An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s previous insistence that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity.
Last year, WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a moratorium on booster doses while dozens of countries embarked on administering the doses, saying rich countries should immediately donate those vaccines to poor countries instead. WHO scientists said at the time they would continue to evaluate incoming data.
, which has been documented to have re-infected some people after an initial case of Omicron. There’s mixed research on whether it causes more severe disease, but vaccines appear just as effective against it.
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