The finding was not surprising to Dr. Leana Wen, emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
“The data from Pfizer out this morning are not surprising. Actually, this is what we have been anticipating all along, that there’s good news and bad news — the bad news being that there’s some degree of immune escape, that two doses may not work as well as against previous variants. But I actually think that’s really good news that the third dose does appear to give that really significant additional boosting effect,” Wen, a CNN medical analyst, told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Wednesday.
“So, it adds more reason for everybody to get a booster, certainly who’s eligible,” Wen said. “But also I do hope that our federal health officials will be quick to reevaluate the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated, especially in light of what we’re learning about Omicron.”
The two studies, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, look at the effects of Israel’s campaign to offer boosters to everyone 12 and older with the spread of the Delta variant in the summer. While deaths and severe cases were low among fully vaccinated people, booster shots…
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