Researchers urge haste: booster vaccination could break the fourth wave

Researchers urge you to hurry
Booster vaccination could break the fourth wave

Experts from the Max Planck Society see a third vaccination as an opportunity to successfully slow down the further spread of the virus. However, half of those who have already been vaccinated twice would have to opt for a booster – and the refreshment campaign would have to accelerate massively.

Fast booster vaccinations for half of the population could “probably” break the fourth corona wave, according to leading scientists. This is the central finding of a current analysis published by the Max Planck Society in Munich. A third vaccination for 50 percent of people who have already been vaccinated twice could “partially” compensate for the negative epidemiological effects due to the relatively high proportion of those who have not been vaccinated so far.

To do this, however, a refreshment campaign would have to progress much faster than the German campaign for first and second vaccinations in the summer. At that time, a maximum of one percent of the population was vaccinated per day, the international team of experts explained in its statement. This value must currently be exceeded. “Then the increased protection of those who have been vaccinated three times can quickly curb the rapid increase in new infections and thus soon reduce the burden on intensive care units from Covid-19 sufferers.”

The epidemiological analysis comes from a team of authors led by Max Planck researcher Viola Priesemann, whose results are explicitly supported by the top of the research society, according to their statements. At the same time as the publication, the President of the Max Planck Society, Martin Stratmann, criticized the federal and state governments. “Politicians should have reacted much earlier to the unambiguous analyzes of science and had to introduce consistent 2G and 3G regulations nationwide.”

According to the authors’ calculations, a so-called booster vaccination would refresh the immunization protection of people who had been vaccinated twice after about five months and thus prevent so-called vaccination breakthroughs. That in turn would inhibit the further spread of the virus. In addition, the increased vaccination protection would further reduce the rate of those who would have to be treated in an intensive care unit after a breakthrough in vaccination because of severe courses.

A booster vaccination would be particularly important for the older half of the population and other particularly vulnerable groups. In view of the current rapid spread of the virus, the researchers believe that younger people should also be given a third dose quickly – and possibly even less than six months after achieving full vaccination protection.

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