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    'We can't vaccinate the planet every six months,' says Oxford vaccine scientist

    (CNN)A leading expert who helped create the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine said Tuesday that giving everyone in the world booster shots multiple times a year is not feasible.

    "We can't vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It's not sustainable or affordable," Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and head of the UK's Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, told The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday.

    Pollard also stressed the "need to target the vulnerable" going forward, rather than administering doses to everyone age 12 and older. More data is needed to ascertain "whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses," he said...

    It's just not -- from a global perspective -- affordable, sustainable or deliverable to give fourth doses to everyone on the planet every six months," Pollard said. "And remember that, today, less than 10% of people in low-income countries have even had their first dose, so the whole idea of regular fourth doses globally is just not sensible."

    Israel has already begun its rollout of a fourth vaccine dose, offering it to all medical workers and people 60 and older as of Monday.

    And in late December, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told public broadcaster ZDF that Germans "will need a fourth vaccination" against Covid-19.

    But Pollard struck an optimistic note in his interview. The "worst is behind us" and the world "just needs to get through the winter," he said.

    "At some point, society has to open up," he added. "When we do open, there will be a period with a bump in infections, which is why winter is probably not the best time...

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    >> We can't vaccinate the planet every six months

    I'm sure they'll try.

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    >> We can't vaccinate the planet every six months

    I'm sure they'll try.
    You better believe it. The medical community wants your life.

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