Abstract
Covid booster shots should be proposed and recommended to all fully vaccinated individuals, considering antibody levels are waning over time and that the risk of being infected typically reappears after 6 months.
editorial . 2021 Nov 30:taab187. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taab187
No further delays in offering booster doses in countries experiencing a major resurgence of COVID-19
Benjamin Davido
1,2,✉, Guillaume Davido
3,4, Djillali Annane
5,6
Benjamin Davido, MD, MSc
1Maladies infectieuses, Université Paris-Saclay, AP-HP Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, 92380, France
2Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, F78180, France
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Guillaume Davido, MD, MSc
3Service de Psychiatrie et d’addictologie, AP-HP Hôpital Bichat, Paris, 75018, France
4Université de Paris, Paris, France
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Djillali Annane, MD, PhD
5Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, F78180, France
6Médecine Intensive et réanimation, Université Paris-Saclay, AP-HP Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, 92100, France
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1Maladies infectieuses, Université Paris-Saclay, AP-HP Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, 92380, France
2Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, F78180, France
3Service de Psychiatrie et d’addictologie, AP-HP Hôpital Bichat, Paris, 75018, France
4Université de Paris, Paris, France
5Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, F78180, France
6Médecine Intensive et réanimation, Université Paris-Saclay, AP-HP Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, 92100, France
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To whom correspondence should be addressed. B. Davido, MD, MSc, Infectious Diseases Department; Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, Garches 92380, France. Tel: +33-1-47107758; Email: benjamin.davido@aphp.fr
Received 2021 Nov 19; Revised 2021 Nov 25.
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