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Will we soon have to vaccinate ourselves every 3 months? Did we start a vaccination subscription with the first vaccination? According to Ugur Sahin, head of BionTech – full safety is only given with a quick, further vaccination!
BionTech boss – next vaccination already after 3 months!
Biontech co-founder Ugur Sahin has advocated a booster as soon as three months after the second vaccination. With regard to the new Omikron variant of the coronavirus, “two doses are not yet a completed vaccination with sufficient protection,” Sahin told the news magazine “Wir” according to a statement on Thursday. “If Omikron continues to spread, as it looks like it will, it would make scientific sense to offer a booster after just three months.”
Whether Biontech will produce a new vaccine specifically adapted for Omikron has not yet been decided, Wir reported. Even the booster with the original vaccine might do: “According to preliminary data, three doses neutralize the virus significantly and should protect those vaccinated.” – but, even a quick, 4 dose is being talked about!
4 vaccine needed?
However, Sahin expects that a fourth dose will then have to follow in relatively short order: “But the fourth vaccination could also be a vaccine adapted to an Omikron variant.” That’s why Biontech is already ramping up its production capacity to around four billion doses for next year, he said.