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Friday, November 29
Booster doses work with Omicron, says Anthony Fauci, America's leading epidemiologist.
Booster doses of messenger RNA vaccines against COVID – 19 work against Omicron , Therefore, a new specific against this variant is not necessary, said this Wednesday the main epidemiologist of the White House, Anthony Fauci.
” Vaccine booster dose regimen works against Omicron . At this point, a specific reinforcement is not necessary ”for this variant, Fauci said at the press conference of the US Government’s task force on the pandemic.
In this sense, the expert sent “a clear message” and encouraged Americans who are not vaccinated to do so and those who are already immunized to come to receive the booster dose.
Throughout his intervention, Fauci relied on a series of studies on Ómicron and on data from outside and within the US
According to the information that has come from the United Kingdom, Fauci explained that the effectiveness of the vaccine against Ómicron decreases as the weeks pass since the second injection was received.
However, when the booster dose is received, the vaccine increases to 75% its effectiveness against to a contagion with omicron that leads to a symptomatic disease of COVID – 19.
“What this tells us very clearly and emphatically is that the omicron variant undoubtedly compromises the effects of antibodies induced by the two-dose RNA vaccine. messenger and reduces protection in general, “he stressed.
However, he added,” considerable protection against serious disease is maintained in studies preliminary clinical and in vitro ”, pointed out Fauci, who remarked that the reinforcement improves the protection against omicron.
Currently in the USA they are approved two messenger RNA vaccines that require two doses, that of Pfizer and that of Moderna, and one developed from an adenovirus, that of Johnson & Johnson; and has given the green light to booster injections of all three.
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