We Screwed Up, This Is Really a Three-Dose Vaccine

RUSHED ROLLOUT

Global studies are showing that a third jab is not a “booster,” it’s an essential element of the vaccination. And we shouldn’t have given the first two doses so close together.

Published Nov. 26 2021 9:14PM EST

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The two messenger-RNA vaccines for COVID-19 are highly effective. At least early on.

But owing to the spread of new and more virulent variants of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, the natural tendency of some vaccinations to wane over time and the rushed way countries have administered vaccine doses, the mRNA jabs from...

David Axe

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We Screwed Up, This Is Really a Three-Dose Vaccine

Global studies are showing that a third jab is not a “booster,” it’s an essential element of the vaccination. And we shouldn’t have given the first two doses so close together.

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David Axe