The head of the European Union's public health agency said on Wednesday that booster shots should be considered for all adults.
Europe's CDC said that boosters should be considered for all adults.
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) says that Covid-19 boosters should be considered for all adults, with a priority given to those over the age of 40.
Ammon said the infectious delta variant, relaxation of public health measures and poor vaccine take-up were the main reasons for Europe's soaring cases and hospitalizations.
The ECDC said in a report that even countries with good overall vaccination coverage have seen cases tick up.
The agency issued guidance in September that said there was no urgent need for the administration of booster doses.
The agency's guidance feeds into decision-making for national governments and informs bloc-wide policy.
Europe is facing its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the start of the Pandemic. Over the past few weeks, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Czechia, Germany and the Netherlands have all hit new highs. Austria has become the first country in the world to make compulsory vaccine for the H1N1 strain of the virus. In the midst of a change in government, Germany is said to be debating the same, and other countries are starting to single out unvaccinated people for harsher measures to curb infections.
An evolving definition of fully vaccineed. A full course of most widely used vaccines, including those made by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, or a single shot of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, is what a fully-vaccinated person would typically mean. Evidence of waning immunity and more widespread use of boosters could change this definition. The White House's chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said the definition may change in the U.S.
The EU says vaccine boosters should be considered for all adults.
Three Covid-19 doses are now considered to be fully vaccineed.
The World Health Organization predicts European virus deaths will pass 2.2 million by March.
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