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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was the first among the organizations to urge Americans to get their Covid booster shots if they had two regular shots already to get protection from the omicron variant. With the renewed surge of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations and the new variant, even scientists who were sceptical of the booster shots are now saying that may be the right thing to do.
One such critic was Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. Talking to the New York Times, she says that she would now “err on the side of giving the booster.” Dr. Camille Kotton, infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an adviser to the C.D.C is another expert who was not convinced entirely by the booster shots. But Dr Kotton also now agrees that booster shots could provide additional protection.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/health/covid-omicron-booster-shots.html)
The emergence of Omicron comes at a time when officials are worried about the approaching winter and the waning of the efficacy of the vaccine. Scientists in other countries are also suggesting the same. British Secretary of Health Sajid Javid has announced that the government would accept the recommendations of scientists. (https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/29/omicron-booster-shots-to-be-available-to-all-adults-in-uk-after-scientific-advice)
With health officials in South Africa, where it was first discovered, now saying that Omicron is now the dominant virus in vases that are turning positive for coronavirus, the rush to get the booster shots is likely to increase. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59503517)
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/concerns-omicron-variant-grow-experts-wait-booster/story?id=81453884