A booster dose of vaccine reduces risk of COVID infection by 95%. Given the number of unvaccinated people, & the number or vulnerable vaccinated people, reducing infections to this degree is a big deal.
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Reducing infections reduces risk of deaths from Covid, morbidity from acute Covid, risk of long covid, risk of transmission to others, and the rise of mutants.
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The big question we grapple with now is not whether boosters work. (They do). It is the more difficult question of how boosters here will affect vaccine supply around the world.
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A huge proportion of the population in low income countries has not received even one dose. Providing vaccines to them is not only the right thing to do but will also help us by reducing risk of new vaccine resistant variants.
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The question is can we do both? Provide boosters and help the world. Yes. I think so. If Moderna, Pfizer help by transferring technology to manufacture vaccines we can do both.
We need to continue pressure these companies to not just donate doses but transfer tech.
We need to continue pressure these companies to not just donate doses but transfer tech.
The data on the efficacy of booster dose is in this thread.
https://twitter.com/vincentrk/status/1451168416476323855
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