Doctors now eligible for COVID-19 vax boosters: ATAGI
The advisory group recommends a single booster dose be available for all adults six months after the second shot
GPs and other health workers should be given COVID-19 vaccine boosters alongside at-risk patients, ATAGI has finally declared.
The advisory group’s long-awaited guidance, released on Thursday, recommends a single booster dose be available for all adults six months after the second shot.
It says expanding the vaccination program is necessary “to mitigate against waning immunity to SARS-COV-2 and emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants”.
It has identified two high-priority groups: patients at greater risk of severe COVID-19 (see box) and those at increased occupational risk, which includes frontline doctors, nurses and other health workers.
