Two departing FDA leaders have joined an international group of scientists to say current evidence doesn't appear to show a need for boosters in most people
The current evidence on Covid-19 vaccines does not appear to support a need for booster shots in the general public right now, according to an international group of vaccine scientists, including some from the US Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization.
"Current evidence does not, therefore, appear to show a need for boosting in the general population, in which efficacy against severe disease remains high," the scientists write in a new opinion piece, published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.Israeli data on Covid-19 vaccine boosters to publish in prominent medical journal ahead of key FDA committee meeting next weekThe authors of the paper include two senior FDA vaccine leaders, Dr.
CNN has reached out to the FDA for comment on the Lancet review.WHO push to wait on boostersLast week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated his call for wealthy nations to refrain from boosting their Covid-19 vaccinations until shots are available to more of the world. He urged countries to wait until at least the end of the year -- a longer timeline than WHO's initial call to wait till the end of September.
"Low and lower-middle income countries are not the second or third priority. Their health workers, older people, and other at risk groups have the same right to be protected," Tedros said."I will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world's poor should be satisfied with leftovers.
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