EXPERT REACTION: ATAGI recommends second 'winter booster dose' for vulnerable Australians
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The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has released recommendations for a fourth 'winter' dose of COVID-19 vaccines. The group is encouraging adults aged 65 years and older, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 years and older, aged and disability care residents and severely immunocompromised adults to get their fourth dose, four months or more after their third.
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Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam is a virologist at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences at Monash University Malaysia