00:00No country can boost its way out of the pandemic, and boosters cannot be seen as a ticket to go
00:10ahead with the planned celebrations without the need for other precautions.
00:16Blanket booster programs are likely to prolong the pandemic rather than ending it by diverting supply to countries that already
00:26have high levels of vaccination coverage,
00:28giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutiate.
00:33It's important to remember that the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are in unvaccinated people, not unboosted people.
00:46And we must be very clear that the vaccines we have remain effective against both the Delta and Omicron variants.
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