BERLIN - The head of the World Health Organization warned Wednesday that blanket booster programs in rich countries risk prolonging the world's battle with COVID-19 and said that "no country can boost its way out of the pandemic."WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the priority must be to reduce deaths and help all countries meet minimum vaccination targets that many still haven't reached.
And he noted that "the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are in unvaccinated people, not unboosted people."Tedros said that, while vaccines have saved many lives this year, their unequal sharing "has cost many lives." In 2021, 3.5 million people were lost to COVID-19, he said, and "all of us need to take extra precautions" as.