CAVEI recommendation on the third booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines

CAVEI recommends a third booster of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, five to six months after the second booster, for:

• people over 65 years of age,
• immunosuppressed people,
• people with chronic diseases and
• health workers,

according to the specifications defined for each group by the National Program for Immunizations from the Ministry of Health. CAVEI recommends the preferential use of a mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and in cases where there is contraindication of mRNA vaccines, a vaccine of different platform may be used.