Keep up covid guard vaccines are plentiful improve booster messaging
After reducing the duration between second dose and the booster shot to 3 months for international travellers, GoI must reduce the general 9-month gap between second dose and boosters and ramp up messaging on importance of precaution doses. Other countries with advanced vaccination programmes administer boosters at much shorter durations. The US CDC prescribes a first booster for all adults five months after the primary series and a second booster for those over 50 or those who are immunocompromised, four months after the first booster. The UK encourages the first booster three months after the second dose.Meanwhile, the Biden administration is preparing for 100 million Covid infections later this year. While India’s Covid trajectory has diverged from other nations in the months after the third wave in January, there’s no room for complacency. Data from the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey of households indicates 42% of diabetes and 56% of hypertension patients are unaware of their condition. These comorbidities are a key reason to encourage all adults to take boosters.
Vaccine supplies are plentiful now. Over 17.5 crore doses are lying unutilised. The low offtake of boosters isn’t surprising: Many people are assuming without evidence that the Covid threat has passed. Nearly 6 crore adults between 18 and 59 are eligible for boosters, but just over 12.5 lakh have taken the jab. The US prognosis of another tidal wave of infections must prod India also to improve its booster dose programme.
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