European Medicines Agency (EMA) warns repeated booster shots could cause immune response problems

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has pushed back against endless booster jabs, saying it could end up causing “immune response” problems. The agency has urged European countries to increase the time between booster shots and also recommends that governments coincide the shots with the cold and flu season.

Marco Cavaleri, who is the head of EMA’s biological health threats and vaccines strategy, said that if the current policy of rolling out new booster shots every four months were to continue, it could end up weakening the immune system:

“We will end up potentially having problems with immune response and the immune response may end up not being as good as we would like it to be, so we should be careful in not overloading the immune system with repeated immunization.”

If I understand correctly, this is called immune exhaustion.

Another concern of his is fatigue in the population with continued administration of boosters.

Commenting on the current EU government policy of pushing out a second booster, Cavaleri said there is no data to suggest such a course of action is preferable. He added that governments need to think about how they can transition from the current pandemic setting to a more endemic setting.

“While use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy. [It] can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we think should be repeated constantly.”

View EMA's whole press briefing here: https://youtu.be/c_bdtDczwK0

REFERENCES

Marco Cavaleri: https://sciencemediahub.eu/scientists/marco-cavaleri/

European Medicines Agency: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en

SOURCE: https://thecovidworld.com/european-medicines-agency-ema-warns-repeated-booster-shots-could-cause-immune-response-problems/