Switzerland Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
Swiss authorities have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination, including those designated at high risk of getting COVID-19. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health says that “no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023.”
People designated high risk are also not recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine, authorities said. They attributed the change to the number of citizens who have received a vaccine, recovered from COVID-19, or both received a vaccine and enjoyed natural immunity from post-recovery protection.
Seroprevalence data from mid-2022 showed that more than 98 per cent of the Swiss population had antibodies against the COVID-19 virus, indicating that people had immunity from prior infection, vaccination, or both.
The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, which started circulating around the world in late 2021, causes less severe cases than its predecessor, Delta. Additionally, the available COVID-19 vaccines have performed increasingly worse against Omicron and its subvariants, providing little or even negative protection against infection and quickly waning shielding against severe disease.
Swiss authorities nodded to the short-lived protection as they noted that people designated at high risk from COVID-19 can still receive a vaccine, despite the lack of recommendation, after consultation with their doctor. People at high risk include those aged 65 or older and pregnant women.
