New York Times: A WHO panel recommends additional vaccine doses for immunocompromised people

By New York Times.

Published Oct. 12, 2021 at 5:19 am

A banner reading in Romanian "Who's afraid of vaccine" and depicting syringes as vampire fangs advertises the vaccination marathon organised at the "Bran Castle" in Bran village on May 8, 2021. - Romanian authorities organise during a whole weekend a non-stop vaccination marathon in several locations and Bucharest to offer to the people the opportunity to get vaccinated without prior appointment, hoping to increase the appetite of the population for the vaccines against Covid-19. Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign, 3,580,368 people have been vaccinated, of which 2,311,487 have received both doses of vaccine. "Bran Castle" is located in the central Transylvania region of Romania ans is thought to inspired Bram StokerТs DraculaТs Castle. This character is often confused with Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), sometimes known as Vlad Dracul, who was a Walachian Prince with a castle, now in ruins, located in the Principality of Wallachia.

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Severely or moderately immunocompromised people who have been vaccinated should be offered an additional dose of the seven coronavirus vaccines the World Health Organization has authorized, an advisory committee recommended on Monday. People whose immune systems are diminished should get another shot if they initially received vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, the Serum Institute of India, Johnson & Johnson, Sinopharm and Sinovac, members of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization told reporters on a call on Monday.