An advisory commission in Germany has ceased Covid-19 jab recommendations for most people under 75, shifting focus to more high-risk groups.
Germany’s Standing Committee on Vaccinations (STIKO) at the Robert Kock Institute released its updated advisory on Thursday, nixing previous recommendations that adults have at least three Covid “antigen contacts,” whether through vaccination or natural infection, in order to build foundational immunity.
Explaining its new position, STIKO wrote that the guidance reflects higher levels of immunity among adults against Covid.
“A large majority of the adult population (> 95%) now possesses broad immunity following repeated exposure to SARS-CoV-2 antigens due to previous infections and/or vaccinations, which generally protects healthy adults well against severe COVID-19,” the group announced on its website. “At the same time, hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 have declined steadily since the end of the pandemic.”
“The STIKO’s recommendation to achieve basic immunity through at least three SARS-CoV-2 antigen contacts via vaccination or infection is therefore no longer necessary,” the group wrote, adding the decision applies to women of child-bearing age and pregnant women with no complications.
STIKO’s new recommendations include one annual Covid booster for people 75 and older, children aged 6 months and older with underlying medical conditions making them prone to severe infection, nursing home residents and staff, pregnant women at risk of underlying disease, high-risk medical personnel, and family members in close contact with people with suppressed immune systems.
“The decision to vaccinate should be made individually after medical consultation, weighing the risk of a severe course of the disease against the benefits of vaccination and possible side effects,” STIKO cautioned.
The policy change was mostly lauded on social media, while critics slammed the health body for taking no accountability for severe adverse reactions to the jab.
Meanwhile, speaking to Children’s Health Defense, German toxicologist Helmut Sterz called the policy change a “political charade” that came about because the government “can no longer go on with telling the population lies.”
“People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 have never developed a durable, solid immunity against this man-made virus,” Sterz said.
He went on to slam STIKO for keeping the immunization policy for adults 75 and older, saying it “perpetuates the false notion that seasonal respiratory viruses require annual ‘boosters,’ a falsehood that is borne out by the abysmal record of the annual influenza vaccine.”
He also blasted new pregnancy guidelines, asking, “Why was this not the strategy from the very beginning? Vaccination of pregnant women with an unknown, not properly evaluated vaccine was a criminal medical act.”
In the US, under the direction of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC has rolled back recommendations for healthy adults under 65, advising they consult their doctors. An effort to reduce vaccine recommendations for children was blocked by a federal court, but is being appealed by the Trump administration.
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