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Recommendation of boosters is short-sighted and is only valid while this variant is active. Give vaccines to Africa instead so there will be no new variants. A
by _v7gu 5y ago
Recommendation of boosters is short-sighted and is only valid while this variant is active. Give vaccines to Africa instead so there will be no new variants. A first dose is much more valuable than a third
- Bud 5y agoThis is interesting, except that you have no idea what you are talking about and no support for this argument. First of all, we don't even know that Omicron originated in Africa to begin with; it was merely first detected there. Second, no, halting booster efforts in rich countries in order to vaccinate Africa will not mean "there will be no new variants". Third, as to which is more "valuable", well, tell the people whose lives have already been saved by the booster doses. Certainly I get the argument, various arguments actually, for vaccinating Africa, etc., but this isn't a very good version of that argument.
- Dma54rhs 5y agoIt's actually the recommendation WHO gave few days ago I believe that rich countries with 3rd and 4th jabs prolong the pandemic and they should give vaccines / work with poorer countries instead.
- paxys 5y agoDoes Africa have a shortage of vaccines or a lack of distribution infrastructure? If we dropped a billion doses into the continent today, how many people would actually get them?
- nradov 5y agoThe current thinking is that new variants are most likely to evolve in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. Vaccines aren't very effective for those people. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-may-arise-in-people-with-compromised-immune-systems/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...