(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, JAN 21 - With Omicron the current vaccines "offer less protection against infections and disease" but "vaccination continues to offer considerable protection" against hospitalization and severe forms, "especially after a booster dose". It is thus "increasingly clear that a booster dose is needed to extend vaccine protection".
This is what emerges from a report on the workshop organized on January 12 by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA), which the European drug agency Ema reports on. On the other hand, the multiple booster dose approach was deemed unsustainable.
"Participants at the meeting agreed that giving multiple booster doses at short intervals is not a sustainable long-term approach. There is a need to develop a long-term strategy on the types of vaccines needed to manage Covid-19 in the future," he stressed.
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