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ATAGI winter booster dose recommendation
ATAGI has recommended an additional booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to increase vaccine protection before winter. This is highly recommended to selected population groups who are at greatest risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and who have received their primary vaccine and first booster dose. These groups include:
- adults aged 65 years and older;
- residents of aged care or disability care facilities;
- people aged 16 and older with severe immunocompromised; and
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 years and older.
The additional winter booster dose can be given from four months or longer after the person has received their first booster dose, or from four months after a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, if infection occurred since the person’s first COVID-19 booster dose.