BERLIN, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Germany’s skilled panel on vaccine use (STIKO) is getting ready to advocate a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose, the committee’s head, Thomas Mertens, instructed media group Funke on Thursday.
“We’ve got information from Israel that reveals a fourth dose considerably improves safety from a extreme case of sickness,” Mertens instructed Funke. “The STIKO will make the advice quickly,” he added.
The panel would advocate booster pictures solely with vaccines which are already out there, Mertens added.
On vaccines which have been tailored to work towards the Omicron coronavirus variant, STIKO must await medical information from Moderna (MRNA.O) and Pfizer-BioNTech, the media group cited Mertens as saying.
Some nations have already began providing further booster doses, however a latest examine from Israel confirmed that whereas a fourth dose of an mRNA vaccine boosted antibodies, the extent was not excessive sufficient to forestall Omicron an infection. learn extra
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