‘No Evidence Right Now’ Healthy Children Need COVID-19 Boosters: Top WHO Scientist

World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, on July 3, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said there is no evidence currently available to support giving COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for healthy children or adolescents.

“There’s no evidence right now that healthy children, or healthy adolescents, need boosters. No evidence at all,” she said at a WHO media briefing on Tuesday.