Talking about this problem, said Director General of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during the news of the news on Wednesday that the Covid-19 blanket booster program tended to extend the pandemic, instead of ending it.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticized the applicable ideas about the administration of the dose of vaccine doses against Coronavirus (Covid-19), indicating that making such a policy will widen the inequality of vaccines that have existed among the first world among the first world. and a relatively poorer nation.
Talking about this problem, the Director General of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreesus said during the news briefing on Wednesday that Covid-19 Blankets The Booster program also tended to extend a pandemic, rather than ending it, “by diverting the supply of [vaccines] to these countries already have level vaccination coverage tall “. This will give Coronavirus “more opportunities to spread and mutate” so that they have the potential to expand pandemics, WHO’s head said.
Why is the blanket booster policy not a good idea?
WHO, in a consultation with a strategic adviser group of experts (SAGE) on immunization and the working group of Covid-19 vaccine, has concluded that most hospitalizations and deaths from Coronavirus are currently among people who are not vaccinated and not those who have been accept. Dosage of Jab or Booster.
“There is no country that can increase the exit of a pandemic,” Director General WHO said during a press conference.
In his interim statement about the Covid-19 booster dose, which was issued on December 22, which explained that the focus of immunization efforts must remain down death and severe disease, and the protection of a health care system. This is very important considering the emergence of the Omicron variant of Coronavirus, which is said to be very contagious and able to undergo mutations that often occur.
“In the context of sustainable global vaccine supply constraints, broad-based administration of booster doses risk exacerbating vaccine access by encouraging demand in countries with substantial vaccine coverage and temporary supply of priority populations in several countries, or in subnational regulation, have not received vaccination series Primary, “Read the WHO statement.
According to the UN Institution, the obstacles in access and distribution have caused injustice that apply in vaccine supply, which can only be resolved with high coverage and commitment of each country to meet the target of global vaccination and to help other countries in need.
The projections made by the public health agency show that only in the second half of 2022 there will be sufficient vaccines around the world to carry out broad booster use in all adults, and so on, it must be widely needed. But until then the broad-based booster program will only continue to widen the existing supply difference, which is concluded.