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A Group of US and International Scientists Claim Current Evidence does not support Providing Booster Doses of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines to the General Public

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Ridgewood NJ,  in an expert review published September 13 online in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet, a group of US and international scientists claim current evidence does not support providing booster doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines to the general public. The group—including 2 departing US FDA officials and WHO experts—said that any decision to provide additional vaccine doses should be evidence-based, concluding that despite a small drop in protection against symptomatic disease caused by the Delta variant, authorized vaccine regimens continue to provide high levels of protection against severe disease and hospitalization for all major SARS-CoV-2 variants. The authors acknowledged that some additional doses might be needed immediately for certain elderly and immunocompromised populations, but they encouraged prioritizing primary immunizations over booster shots for the general public.

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Study that Questioned Hydroxychloroquine Effectiveness Against COVID19 Retracted

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Washington DC, The three authors of the study, led by Mandeep R. Mehra of Harvard Medical School and published in late May , retracted their study from the Lancet because independent peer reviewers could not access the data used for the analysis.

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