There are some public voices claiming that children, even though they’re healthy and young adults, need a third dose of a COVID vaccine. But there are plenty of supporters of the opposite idea, claiming that these folks shouldn’t get ‘boosted’.
Says who? Says the WHO (World Health Organization)! According to Fox News, the organization says that there’s no evidence that healthy children and young adults need the so-called ‘boosters’. The idea comes from the WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, to be more precise.
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The scientist said it clear, as quoted by Fox News:
There is no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters. No evidence at all.
The scientist noted that the vaccines provide protection against severe disease. Swaminathan also explained, as quoted by the same source:
That’s the outcome we’re most interested in: protection against death. Against omicron, many of the vaccines have shown a reduction in efficacy against infection. And, that’s why we see a lot of breakthrough infections. But, these are mostly not resulting in severe disease.
And if we take a look at information brought by worldometers.info, we can get a pretty good idea of how fast the new Omicron variant makes the coronavirus spread across the world. The USA remains the most affected country by the COVID pandemic, and it reported over 69.8 million infections with the coronavirus since the very start of the pandemic. For instance, the USA reported over 710,000 infections with COVID only for yesterday, January 19.
According to the same website, other countries such as the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and others are reporting huge numbers of COVID infections. These countries, along with the USA, have been going through the strongest COVID surges since the pandemic started.