Vaccine boosters become potent symbol of pandemic inequality
“Vaccine boosters are fast becoming the ultimate symbol of pandemic inequality. While much of the world struggles with procuring doses of the coronavirus vaccines, leaving health workers and other vulnerable people at risk, some wealthy nations are considering boosting the immunity of fully vaccinated people further with another shot.
But they will face opposition. The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for a global moratorium on booster shots until at least September, pointing to the urgent need for doses in poorer nations. “We cannot and should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a media briefing.”