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I feel like we are going to have to get a yearly booster and they will be guessing the strains every year just like the flu. Note: 100% a gut feeling
by flatiron 5y ago
I feel like we are going to have to get a yearly booster and they will be guessing the strains every year just like the flu.
Note: 100% a gut feeling
- ethbr0 5y agoThat was pretty obvious since March 2020. Highly contagious respiratory viruses with non-human reservoirs don't go back into the bottle, once they're circulating.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoNo, but flu is the only one that evolves so quickly that we need a new shot every year.
- ethbr0 5y agoCoronaviruses give people colds too, they just weren't as widespread or symptomatic as influenza. Now, they probably will be.
- walterbell 5y agoJan 23rd, https://www.rt.com/news/546859-pfizer-ceo-future-vaccines/ https://www.rt.com/news/546859-pfizer-ceo-future-vaccines/ > In a series of interviews with Israeli TV channels, Albert Bourla said it would “not be a good scenario” if people were to get boosters every four to five months. “What I'm hoping [is] that we will have a vaccine that you will have to do once a year,” ... Bourla argued that it is both easier to sell the idea and “easier for people to remember” if a vaccine is required only once per year, calling it “an ideal situation” from “a public health perspective.”
- fpgaminer 5y agoThere's some distant hope for a "super" vaccine against the entire coronavirus (sub)family: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/pan-coronavirus-super-vaccine https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/pan-coronavir...
- iso1210 5y agoImagine if the development work for covid vaccines ends up with more effective vaccines against things like flu and even the common cold
- standard458 5y agoI'm hoping for some serious advances in masks. And the social acceptability of walking around looking like Bane.