booster injection

Nearly 75% of Indonesians over the age of 6, or 174.7 million people, have received two vaccine shots and about 68.5 million have had at least one booster injection, according to health ministry data.

While calling the results “really good news,” Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert with the Baylor College of Medicine, noted that researchers only measured the levels of neutralizing antibodies one month after a booster injection.

Margaret Keenan, the first person to receive a Covid jab outside of a clinical trial, received her booster injection in September.

From 15 January 2022, people aged 18-64 who have been fully vaccinated for more than seven months will also need to demonstrate they have received an approved Covid-19 booster injection to access the “pass sanitaire”.

For younger, healthy people, the benefits of a booster injection will be marginal, according to Dr. Eric Rubin, a member of the F.D.A.’s advisory panel and an adjunct professor of immunology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.