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The World Health Organization is coming out against a third vaccine for corona
The director general of the health organization issued a stern statement against the start of the third vaccination campaign in affluent countries, while in poor countries the vaccination rate is less than one percent.
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Thursday, 05 August 2021, 09:09 Updated: 09:26
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In the video: Corona's third vaccination campaign for people aged 60 and over (Photo: Reuters)
While other countries in the world are still trying to get enough vaccine doses to start vaccinating the population with the first and second dose of the corona vaccine, other countries - led by Israel - have already started giving a third booster dose of the vaccine.
In a statement issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), he called for an immediate halt to all third-dose vaccines at least until the end of September and beyond, and the reasoning is more moral than medical.
The health organization is very concerned about equality gaps between poor countries where vaccine targets are very far from desirable and between rich countries that manage to more easily secure themselves a third dose of the vaccine.
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The organization's announcement came hours after a San Francisco hospital began offering the public "complementary doses" of Pfizer and Modernera coronary vaccines to vaccinators who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and in the midst of a vaccination campaign to give a third booster dose to the population. 60 or more, which was launched in Israel a few days ago and has already vaccinated more than 200,000 people.
A number of other European countries have also announced that they intend to launch similar third-dose vaccination campaigns for the elderly population.
"Most of the rations should now go to the poor countries."
Vaccinated receives a third dose of the vaccine in Israel (Photo: Reuven Castro)
About 29 percent of the world's population has received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine, but if you look at the vaccine data in poor countries, the percentage of vaccinated stands at only about a single percent.
"I understand the concern of all governments and the desire to protect their citizens from the Delta variant. But it is not possible to accept a situation where those countries that have already used up most of the global vaccines that have been so far take another share of it," said World Health Organization director Tedros. Adhanum Gavrisos in a rather harsh announcement:
Among the countries that have announced that they will start vaccinating soon with a booster dose of the vaccine, similar to Israel, are Germany and France, which intend to vaccinate civilians vaccinated in the early stages of vaccination operations. That it is prepared to begin the operation of giving the third dose next month, subject to approvals from the local health authorities in the country.
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A leading health body that has not yet expressed an official position on a third dose of corona vaccines is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the White House said it was prepared and ready to vaccinate a third dose, if necessary. White House spokeswoman Jen rulings said that Washington is prepared to vaccinate party if such a decision is approved, while also willing to donate surplus vaccines to other countries.
according to estimates of the WHO, if 11 countries began to vaccinate third course or have announced they intend to do so in the coming weeks indeed inoculating all citizens above the age "We need to change the situation quickly - instead of most vaccines going to high-income countries, most of the doses should go to the poorer countries," said Tedros Health.
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