COVID-19 Vaccine Creator: ‘We Can’t Vaccinate the Planet Every 6 Months’

A nurse prepares the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Mexico City on Dec. 7, 2021. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

The creator of one of the most used COVID-19 vaccines in the world acknowledged Tuesday that it is “not sustainable” to continuously provide booster doses to people twice per year.

Speaking to The Telegraph in an interview on Tuesday, Andrew Pollard, one of the creators of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot, remarked, “We can’t vaccinate the planet every six months.”