AZ CEO Soriot urges caution on COVID booster doses

The UK should think twice before backing widespread use of COVID-19 booster vaccinations, as to do so could place unnecessary burden on the NHS over the winter, according to AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot.

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph newspaper with AZ’s head of biopharma R&D Mene Pangalos, Soriot write that the UK is only a few weeks away from having a definitive answer on whether two doses of COVID-19 vaccines can provide “continued, protective immunity.”