{"id":100122,"date":"2021-12-21T18:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=100122"},"modified":"2021-12-21T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T16:04:24","slug":"expert-committee-in-estonia-decides-covid-booster-doses-should-be-given-after-2-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/expert-committee-in-estonia-decides-covid-booster-doses-should-be-given-after-2-3-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert committee in Estonia decides covid booster doses should be given after 2-3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On Monday, the immunoprophylaxix expert committee recommended that covid booster jabs be given 2-3 months after completing the initial course of vaccinations \u2013 1 dose for Janssen and 2 doses for Pfizer, Moderna and Astra Zeneca.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The committee recommends that those who received the single dose Janssen vaccine should receive a booster after 2 months from their initial dose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c<span class=\"s1\"><i>It is especially important to get a fast booster dose after getting vaccinated with the Janssen vaccine, because current data shows that one dose of the vaccine does not offer similar protection to mRNA vaccines,&#8221;<\/i><\/span><i> <\/i><strong>Marje Oona<\/strong> explains<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">For those who received <\/span>Pfizer, Moderna or Astra Zeneca for their initial course of vaccination, the committee recommends that a booster should be received within 3 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><i>In <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>light of the Omicron variant&#8217;s spread, it is important to increase the vaccination coverage in society,&#8221;<\/i>&nbsp;<\/span>Oona added<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The committee recommends that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines be used for the booster jabs. However, Janssen can also be used, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Monday, the immunoprophylaxix expert committee recommended that covid booster jabs be given 2-3 months after completing the initial &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":100123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13631,13632,13633,13634,13635,13636,13637],"class_list":["post-100122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-covid-booster","tag-covid","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-pfizer-2","tag-janssen","tag-booster","tag-moderna-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100130,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100122\/revisions\/100130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}