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Date Published: 05/10/2021
ARCHIVED - Spain delays deciding on booster Covid vaccine for general population
The European Medicines Agency has given the go-ahead for a third Pfizer vaccine to be administered to those over 18 in Spain
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave the green light on Monday October 4 to countries wishing to administer a third booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to healthy adult populations, but the Ministry of Health has insisted that Spain is in no immediate rush to roll out an extra jab to those over the age of 18.
According to the latest report, the EMA has recommended administering a third dose of either Pfizer or Moderna to anyone with weakened immune systems after a comprehensive study showed that a booster shot given 28 days after the second vaccine increased the ability to produce antibodies against Covid in organ transplant patients. For healthy people aged between 18 and 55, a third Pfizer dose is recommended after six months.
For its part, Spain has already begun offering boosters to older people living in residential services as well as certain populations with compromised immune systems, but Carolina Darias maintains that there is no “imminent” plan to extend this. While Spain has repeatedly vowed to adopt decisions that go “hand in hand” with the EMA, each country is free to issue its own official recommendations on the use of booster doses, and here in Spain, the issue will be debated as part of the national Vaccine Strategy based on the data available.
According to the Ministry, given that 77.4% of the population have now been fully immunised against coronavirus, the decision relating to a booster dose is not as urgent as it might have been a few months ago and that an assessment of the need for a third dose will be made “calmly” in the coming weeks.
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