Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
The paper is thoughtful. The reporting on it is reckless. An accurate headline would be: &quot;Vaccine experts: Widespread booster mandates aren&#x27;t needed now,&quot; or perhaps &quot;recommendations&quot;<p>There&#x27;s a line between:<p>* Mandatory.<p>* Recommended.<p>* Allowed.<p>* Banned.<p>If I am flying to do humanitarian work in Vietnam tomorrow, I absolutely need a booster shoot. Right now, the only way to get that is to go to a state which doesn&#x27;t require ids for vaccines, and get a shot.<p>The article discusses that boosters are clearly still appropriate in some circumstances:<p>&quot;Boosting could be appropriate for some individuals in whom the primary vaccination, defined here as the original one-dose or two-dose series of each vaccine, might not have induced adequate protection—eg, recipients of vaccines with low efficacy or those who are immunocompromised2
(although people who did not respond robustly to the primary vaccination might also not respond well to a booster).&quot;