Vaccine against Covid-19: booster doses are not “necessary” according to scientific data news – franceinfo

She is stepping up to the plate. The World Health Organization (WHO) denounced, Wednesday, August 18, the rush of rich countries for the third dose of vaccine against Covid-19. The latter considers that scientific data have not demonstrated the need for a recall for the moment.

“We clearly believe that current data does not indicate that recalls are necessary.”WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a press conference. It’s necessary “wait for science to tell us when boosters are needed, what groups of people and which vaccines need boosters”, she explained.

From a point of view “moral and ethical”, it is also not good in his eyes that the rich countries inject the third dose “when the rest of the world is waiting for their first injection”.

Shortly after these statements, the United States announced a recall campaign for anti-Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna at the end of September, with health authorities concerned about the decline in the immune protection conferred by the vaccines over time. This recall campaign, however, remains suspended from the authorization of an additional dose by the United States Medicines Agency (FDA).

For its part, France has opted for the injection of third doses for the elderly and frail starting this fall.