UK experts: No need yet for a fourth Covid jab

UK experts: No need yet for a fourth Covid jab
January 8, 2022, 8:40 am

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The BBC reported that UK experts say, a fourth Covid jab is not yet needed because booster doses continue to provide high protection against severe disease from the Omicron variant among older adults.

UK Health Security Agency data show three months after boosting, protection against hospitalisation remains at about 90% for people aged 65 and over.

Protection against mild symptomatic infection is more short-lived. It drops to around 30% by about three months.

Figures also show why it is important to get a booster dose if you have only had two doses so far.

With just two vaccine doses, protection against severe disease drops to around 70% after three months and to 50% after six months.

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The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine policy, says the priority therefore remains to get first, second and third doses to those who have not already had them.

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More than 35 million boosters and third doses have now been administered across the UK.

Source: BBC

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