‘No Evidence Covid Boosting Entire Population Offers Greater Protection to Healthy Individuals’, WHO Official Says

A top World Health Organization official said there is “no evidence” to suggest that Covid booster doses would offer “greater protection” to healthy people. Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s emergency director, questioned the logic of some countries trying to produce more booster doses to vaccinate anyone aged 18 and older. “Right now, there is no evidence that I’m aware of that would suggest that boosting the entire population is going to necessarily provide any greater protection for otherwise healthy individuals against hospitalization and death,” Ryan said.  “The real risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death lies, in particularly, in…