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Israel to Begin Giving Pfizer Booster Shots for People Over 60
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1:01Now PlayingIsrael will start giving third doses of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine to people over age 60, becoming the first country to widely roll out booster shots intended to halt a resurgent spread of the virus.
Starting Sunday, those who received a second dose more than five months ago will be eligible for the booster, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a televised address on Thursday.
“Reality has proven that the vaccines are safe,” Bennett said. Israel has already given a third dose to 2,000 immuno-compromised people and seen “no severe adverse events,” he said.
New infections have surged in Israel in recent weeks, largely due to the delta variant first identified in India. Israel is taking the step given recent data suggesting the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech SE vaccine wanes after six months, while providing very strong protection against serious illness. Critical cases have also climbed but are still a fraction of the peak reached earlier this year.
Israel raced ahead of most countries with its vaccine campaign in December, fully inoculating more than 1 million people over 60 within a month, according to Health Ministry data.
The U.S. hasn’t yet sanctioned the need for a third vaccine dose. Earlier this month, Pfizer said it would approach U.S. regulators in August for authorization of a third dose of its vaccine, based on early data showing it can sharply increase immune protection against the coronavirus.
The “vast majority” of the committee advising Israel’s Health Ministry on the coronavirus pandemic made the recommendation to give booster shots to the elderly, the ministry said earlier on Thursday.
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