While her risk of spreading the virus if infected is low, it would be much lower if she were boosted." "That healthy 30-year-old might want to visit older relatives or be around an immunocompromised friend.
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"It’s true that the benefits of a booster for her individually are modest: With waning immunity, she’ll be at risk of a breakthrough infection when she encounters the Delta variant, but for her that would likely mean a few days of misery and full recovery, with a small (albeit not zero) risk of severe disease or long-term complications."īut as population-health, Jha says, boosters are hard to dismiss. Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health wrote Thursday, Nov. "Let’s consider a healthy, 30-year-old vaccinated woman," as Dr. But because even mild breakthroughs can spread infection to vulnerable and unvaccinated populations, we have to try to get all cases down- Vincent Rajkumar November 16, 2021 The first 2 doses continue to provide high degree of protection against severe disease. "It may not be so much in terms of protection for them from getting it, or going to the hospital and dying from it, but more for us to decrease the overall burden of infection in our country as a whole." Abinash Virk during a media call recently. "I tell young, healthy persons the booster is more likely to help with decreasing the overall burden of infection in the community," said Mayo Clinic infectious disease specialist Dr. In short, though they reduce the risk of infection for the healthy the primary value of a third shot may have less to do with protecting the fully vaccinated, than limiting the unknown risk they add to the considerable danger faced by the unvaccinated. For those who are older or have complex health conditions that appears to be the case.įor all others, however, experts increasingly depict boosters in terms of population health, as opposed to personal health. To grateful booster recipients now sharing "boosted" messages on social media, third shots are widely envisioned as a strengthened firewall against infection and serious illness.
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