COVID boosters | A new force | Salt
REVIEW COVID BOOSTERS: ARE THEY ENOUGH TO PREVENT A WINTER SPIKE IN INFECTIONS?
As new variants of coronavirus continue to emerge, the next round of vaccinations has started in a bid to protect the most vulnerable people
“If the uptake of the booster is low in the vulnerable population, a rise in severe infections and hospitalisations will probably follow”
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As the new COVID-19 subvariant, BA.2.86, nicknamed Pirola (see page 26), spread across the world, the UK Health Security Agency decided to bring the start of the booster vaccination programme
