Also, an important point to be mentioned, the jury panel is composed of some of the best members of Hollywood, and therefore getting recognition by people who have shown their merit previously, is a great achievement in itself. The Academy Award helps in retrieving a movie of pure excellence and showcasing to the world what may have been forgotten in the mayhem of box office numbers.
The nominations for Oscars on Monday saw nine actors of colors earn recognition for their stellar works in the entertainment industry. This came as a welcome surprise for everyone as the aggressive efforts by the Academy to change the WhyOscarSoWhite for the better, finally manifested. Some of the most refreshing changes that could be observed in the Oscar nominations are. Along with these happy changes, however, a sad milestone was achieved by Chadwick Boseman too.
He earned a posthumous Oscar nomination. However, the fact that it took until for the Academy Awards to recognize heterogeneous arrays of nominees can be quite concerning. It somewhat showed how deeply rooted the prejudices are embedded in the entertainment industry and what kept people of color outside of the Oscars for so long. However, the nominations are not the only thing that has been new for this esteemed award ceremony this year. Some of the most notable changes that we will be going to see are:.
For back home, Oscars noticed only two Indian movies in the nomination lists. In late August, the government made booster shots available to anyone at least five months after their second jab. Israel so far has administered more than two million booster shots, and the government has said it is preparing to ensure it has sufficient supplies in case a fourth dose is needed.
Germany and France also started offering an additional shot to some fully vaccinated people this month, beginning with the most vulnerable groups. The United Kingdom will this month offer booster shots to anyone over 50, front-line health workers or the clinically vulnerable. The country currently offers an extra shot to those with weakened immune systems. The World Health Organization WHO has called for a moratorium on booster shots at least until the end of the year, arguing that limited vaccine supplies should be allocated to low-income countries with low vaccination rates before high-income countries offer their populations additional doses, because it would save more lives.
Some scientists have cautioned that the immunological case for booster shots is not strong enough, due to a lack of evidence regarding vaccine effectiveness over time. According to the US CDC a booster dose is understood as an additional dose given to a person that has already received the two doses of the vaccine and built enough immunity protection, but whose protection has decreased over time.
The booster shot is designed to prolong immunity. According to the CDC, people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised will get a third dose rather than a booster. Several countries have announced or launched programmes administrating third doses to vulnerable groups, including immunocompromised individuals.
It is common for the protection from vaccines to wane with time and booster shots are typically used to increase antibody levels for longer. Several studies into so-called breakthrough infections in the US have suggested there is a reduction in vaccine effectiveness against infection over time. However, the studies have also suggested that there were no major increases in hospitalisation or death rates over time among fully vaccinated people. Several studies around the world have shown that the vaccines are extremely effective in preventing severe cases of COVID and are even more effective at preventing hospitalisation and death among fully vaccinated people.
Pfizer has said data from its own early clinical trials suggested that vaccine efficacy declines after participants received their second dose and that a booster shot was safe and helped to restore antibody levels.
The WHO has said it is not clear if studies showing levels of antibodies falling over time means a reduction in vaccine effectiveness. While the antibodies produced by the vaccines play a key role in preventing infection, some experts have stressed that the shots have also generated other immune defences in the form of B and T cells, which can prevent severe illness.
According to Lemus-Martin, those cells also help generate an immune response that will help prevent severe illness or death. But several scientists, NGOs and the WHO have warned rich countries against offering booster jabs to younger, healthier groups, arguing that limited vaccine supplies would save more lives if allocated to vulnerable groups in lower-income countries which have yet to be fully vaccinated.
Others have noted that it is imperative to boost immunity in populations with weak vaccine coverage to reduce the chance of new virus variants emerging. The WHO has set a target for every country to fully vaccinate at least 10 percent of its population by the end of this month, at least 40 percent by the end of this year and 70 percent by the middle of next year.
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