‘Booster necessary against omikron’
The AstraZeneca vaccine does not protect against infection by the omikron variant, the Pfizer vaccine still somewhat. Jaap van Dissel, head of infectious disease control at RIVM, has said. wednesday said in the House of Representatives. A booster shot can increase the protection back to 75 percent.
It is still unclear whether the vaccines’ protection against hospitalization as a result of infection with the omikron variant has also declined sharply, although Van Dissel said the first signs are not looking good.
According to Van Dissel, boosting is therefore the most important weapon in the fight against the new variant. According to him, whether enough people have themselves tested again will determine how we get through the coming wave.
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