Regular Booster Vaccines Are the , Likely Future of COVID Battle, Say Experts.<br />The statements come from the head of <br />COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK), a consortium committed to sequencing the coronavirus genomes.<br />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, <br />via Reuters.<br />We already are tweaking the vaccines to deal with what the virus is doing in terms of evolution —, Sharon Peacock, Head of COG-UK, <br />via Reuters.<br />... 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, <br />via Reuters.<br />Peacock compared the <br />boosters to annual flu shots.<br />She also expressed concern over <br />the South African variant of the virus.<br />... saying that "it is more transmissible," <br />and that "our immunity is <br />reduced against that virus.".<br />I have to be quite humble in the face <br />of a virus that we know very little <br />about still, Sharon Peacock, Head of COG-UK, <br />via Reuters
