Europe Moves Closer to Offering Covid Boosters
Visitor registration booths at a Covid-19 vaccination center in Berlin, Germany.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergEurope is getting closer to a decision on providing a third booster shot to some populations as countries work to mitigate the fallout of a potential rise in infections this winter amid waning vaccine effectiveness.
The U.K.’s drug regulator cleared booster shots from Pfizer and AstraZeneca this week, with a government advisory panel set to recommend whether the nation should go ahead with rolling out a third dose in the coming days. Britain is already offering extra shots to people 12 and older with severely weakened immune systems.