Giving the general population a second COVID-19 booster shot does not make sense at this point due to the lack of benefit from doing so, Dr. Edsel Salvaña of the Department of Health's Technical Advisory Group said Monday.
Giving the general population a second COVID-19 booster shot does not make sense at this point due to the lack of benefit from doing so, Dr. Edsel Salvaña of the Department of Health's Technical Advisory Group said Monday.
Salvaña made the response when asked if the government should consider allowing the general population to get a second booster against COVID-19 given that a significant number of COVID-19 vaccines are about to expire. "On general population, hindi pa gaanong kalaki ang benefit. Vaccines in the works may actually be more beneficial than giving a second booster to the general population. It does not make sense to give a second booster to the general population na hindi klaro ang evidence ng benefit dahil lang mage-expire na [ang bakuna]," he added.
"We can't easily give medicine, which has side effects, just because it is about to expire. The first rule of medicine is do no harm. Unless we have proven that the benefits outweigh the risk, then we cannot give the vaccine just because it is about to expire," he added.
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