COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Not Widely Needed

A group of international scientists has said in a new report in a medical journal that additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not needed for the general population.<br />The report concluded that even with the threat of the more contagious Delta variant booster doses for the general population are not appropriate at this stage in the pandemic.”<br />The scientists wrote that any decisions about the need for boosting or timing of boosting should be based on careful analyses of adequately controlled clinical or epidemiological data.<br />The scientists say more evidence was needed to justify boosters, and that vaccines remain highly effective against severe symptoms of COVID-19, across all the main virus variants including Delta.