Swaminathan’s comments come two weeks after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved booster shots for adolescents aged 12 to 17, and as the Omicron variant spread across the world, leading to a massive surge in cases.
WHO: ‘No evidence' that 'healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters'
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said during a media briefing Tuesday that there is no scientific evidence that healthy children nor adolescents need to get booster shots.
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"The aim is to protect the most vulnerable, to protect those at highest risk of severe disease and dying. Those are our elderly populations, the immunocompromised, people with underlying conditions, but also health care workers because if a lot of health care workers get infected as we see now, they can be out sick, and we don’t want them getting severely ill."-- More...
