We have seen a rise in intensive care patients in NSW in recent days, almost all of those have been unvaccinated, not even a first dose let alone a booster. So that still remains the No 1 priority for the vaccination program.
It is four weeks today since we found out about Omicron, this new variant of concern, and in those four weeks we have already gained a lot of information … particularly around severity and what is the effectiveness of vaccination programs throughout the world … As has always been our main aim of the program, is to protect those that are most at risk of severe disease. So they remain our priority …
We know two key things. One is that … protection … from the first two doses of the vaccine … wanes over time, hence the time-based change in the boosters. The positive effect of that is that we do know now that boosters do protect and increase that protection against severe disease once that third dose is given or a fourth dose in the case of immunocompromised people. So they are a given. It’s an absolute aim of the program to go forward and do that. The second reason is because boosters at this stage can help about the transmission of the virus.
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