{"id":50589,"date":"2022-02-14T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/dak-seeks-to-shorten-booster-shot-interval\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T10:20:21","slug":"dak-seeks-to-shorten-booster-shot-interval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50589","title":{"rendered":"DAK seeks to shorten booster shot interval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar, Feb 14:<\/strong> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday has sought to shorten the booster shot interval to 6 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the gap between the second dose and the booster shot in India is 9 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShortening the interval would prevent the emergence of new variants of Covid-19,\u201d said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hassan said while two doses of Covid-19 vaccine protects you from severe disease, but immunity wanes over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVarious studies have confirmed that Covid-19 vaccine becomes less effective over time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DAK President said analysis from a UK study found that the protection provided by the two doses of Pfizer and Oxford (Covishield) vaccine wanes within six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe study revealed that protection after two doses of the Pfizer vaccine decreased from 88% at one month to 74% at five to six months and protection for Oxford decreased from 77% at one month to 67% at four to five months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine are being given within 6 months of the second dose in many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Secretary DAK Dr Arshad Ali said booster shots should be extended to all adults to broaden individual\u2019s immune response against the emerging variants of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the moment booster doses are being given to healthcare workers, frontline workers and people aged 60 with comorbidities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDubbed as precautionary dose in India, booster shot is the third or the additional dose of Covid-19 vaccine given to ensure the protection is maintained against the new variants,\u201d said Dr Riyaz Ahmad Dagga Spokesperson DAK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCDC and FDA have approved booster shots for all adults to be given within six months after the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 14: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday has sought to shorten the booster shot interval to 6 months. Currently, the gap between the second dose and the booster shot in India is 9 months. \u201cShortening the interval would prevent the emergence of new variants of Covid-19,\u201d said DAK President and influenza expert Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}