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Originally Posted by Fuzz
That's quite bit different than saying:
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The Director-General of WHO has called for a moratorium on booster vaccination for healthy adults until the end of 2021 to counter the persisting and profound inequity in global vaccine access (2).
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While many countries are far from reaching the 40% coverage target by the end of 2021, other countries have vaccinated well beyond this threshold, already reaching children and implementing extensive booster vaccination programmes. At the time of release of this statement, globally about 20% of COVID-19 vaccine doses, daily, are used for booster or additional dose vaccination.
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https://www.who.int/news/item/22-12-...-december-2021
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Jan 18 (Reuters) - There is no evidence at present that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Tuesday.
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"There is no evidence right now that healthy children or healthy adolescents need boosters. No evidence at all," she said.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/hea...rs-2022-01-18/
They actually just reversed their statement yesterday. They were, in fact, telling healthy individuals not to get boosted.
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In a statement, the WHO said the Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition "strongly supports urgent and broad access to current COVID-19 vaccines for primary series and booster doses, particularly for groups at risk of developing severe disease."
The WHO has previously spoken out against administering COVID-19 booster shots, arguing that wealthier countries should abstain from administering additional doses while low- and middle-income countries have struggled to provide initial rounds of vaccinations for their populations.
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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...rs-in-reversal