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ATAGI have provided recommendations on a winter booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to increase vaccine protection before winter for specified population groups who are at greatest risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and who have received their primary vaccination course and first booster dose.
These groups are:
- Adults aged 65 years and older
- Residents of aged care or disability care facilities
- People aged 16 years and older with severe immunocompromise (as defined in the ATAGI statement on the use of a 3rd primary dose of COVID-19 vaccine in individuals who are severely immunocompromised)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 years and older.
The additional winter booster dose can be given from 4 months or longer after the person has received their first booster dose, or from 4 months after a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, if infection occurred since the person’s first COVID-19 booster dose.
For other groups not listed above, there is insufficient evidence of the benefits of an additional booster dose to make recommendations at this time. ATAGI will continue to monitor emerging evidence and may recommend an additional dose for these groups in the future.
ATAGI encourages anyone aged 16 years and over to receive a booster dose as soon as they are eligible.
