If you’re over 50, you might want to roll up your sleeve again.
Friday, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization expanded their recommendation on mRNA booster shots to include:
-People 50 years and older
-Adults in long-term care homes or other communal senior care settings
-Recipients of a viral vector vaccine series (AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD or Janssen COVID-19 vaccine)
-Adults in or from First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities
-Frontline healthcare workers with in-person contact with patients
Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer, said NACI made the recommendation based on the latest evidence.
“There remains no widespread decrease in protection against severe disease in the general population in Canada,” she said. “However, waning protection trends observed in other countries give us cause for concern.”
This comes as rising worries about the Omicron variant have shut borders and ramped up COVID-19 measures across the world.
