Regular Covid-19 booster vaccines will be standard procedure
The novel coronavirus mutates about once every two weeks — slower than influenza or HIV, but enough to require tweaks to vaccines
15 March 2021 - 11:14
Cambridge, England — Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain’s effort to sequence the virus’s genomes told Reuters.
The novel coronavirus, which has killed 2.65-million people globally since it emerged in China in late 2019, mutates about once every two weeks, slower than influenza or HIV, but enough to require tweaks to vaccines...
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