According to the European Medicines Agency, the E.U.’s main drug regulator, taking a COVID-19 booster every four months could drastically weaken the body’s defense against infection.
Bloomberg later attempted to backtrack its reporting by claiming that what EU regulators actually said was that repeated booster vaccinations could hamper the immune response and may not be feasible.
“[Boosters] can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly,” said Marco Cavaleri, head of biological health threats and vaccines strategy for the EMA. “We need to think about how we can transition from the current pandemic setting to a more endemic setting.”
Instead of calling for an outright halt to booster vaccinations, the EMA instead suggested that people get a booster for COVID-19 each year during winter, instead of once every four to six months. This would follow the blueprint set out by mass vaccination strategies for influenza....<<<Read More>>>...
