Though currently approved COVID-19 vaccines effectively provide immunity against the virus, it’s unclear how long that protection will last.
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A public health expert outlines what Britons can expect from their upcoming booster programme.
Vaccination rates for COVID-19 have been lower than desired for herd immunity, or when enough people become immune for new infections to stop. What will life look like without it?
An immunologist explains that you get some protection from the first dose of the mRNA vaccines but you need two to build up strong immunity, particularly to newer coronavirus variants.
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Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology and Immunology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Research scientist, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Adjunct professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Laboratory Head, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Principal Lecturer, Microbiology and Biomedical Science Practice, Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, University of Brighton