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Flu vaccines are updated every year. We can learn from this process as we respond to COVID variants – The Conversation AU
Decades of experience with influenza offers insights into how we should handle new SARS-CoV-2 variants, and the threat they pose to vaccine effectiveness.
While the future of the pandemic remains uncertain, well probably have to live with COVID-19 for some time.
We face a range of possible scenarios. At the most optimistic end of the spectrum, new vaccines will protect against all current and future variants of concern. At the other extreme, well see the frequent emergence and spread of new variants, against which existing vaccines will have limited effect.
Its likely well land somewhere in the middle.
Notably, although new variants do threaten the…
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