Regular Booster Vaccines Are the , Likely Future of COVID Battle, Say Experts.
The statements come from the head of
COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK), a consortium committed to sequencing the coronavirus genomes.
We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever, Sharon Peacock, Head of COG-UK,
via Reuters.
We already are tweaking the vaccines to deal with what the virus is doing in terms of evolution —, Sharon Peacock, Head of COG-UK,
via Reuters.
... so there are variants arising that have a combination of increased transmissibility and an ability to partially evade our immune response, Sharon Peacock, Head of COG-UK,
via Reuters.
Peacock compared the
boosters to annual flu shots.
She also expressed concern over
the South African variant of the virus.
... saying that "it is more transmissible,"
and that "our immunity is
reduced against that virus.".
I have to be quite humble in the face
of a virus that we know very little
about still, Sharon Peacock, Head of COG-UK,
via Reuters