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Regular booster vaccines are the future in battle with COVID-19 virus, expert says
Reuters ^ | 03/15/2021 | By Guy Faulconbridge

Posted on 03/15/2021 6:22:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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 around once every two weeks, slower than influenza or HIV, but enough to require tweaks to vaccines.

Sharon Peacock, who heads COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) which has sequenced half of all the novel coronavirus genomes so far mapped globally, said international cooperation was needed in the “cat and mouse” battle with the virus

“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” Peacock told Reuters at the non-profit Wellcome Sanger Institute’s 55-acre campus outside Cambridge.

“We already are tweaking the vaccines to deal with what the virus is doing in terms of evolution - so there are variants arising that have a combination of increased transmissibility and an ability to partially evade our immune response,” she said.

Peacock said she was confident regular booster shots - such as for influenza - would be needed to deal with future variants but that the speed of vaccine innovation meant those shots could be developed at pace and rolled out to the population.

COG-UK was set up by Peacock, a professor at Cambridge, exactly a year ago with the help of the British’s government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, as the virus spread across the globe to Britain.

The consortium of public health and academic institutions is now the world’s deepest pool of knowledge about the virus’s genetics: At sites across Britain, it has sequenced 346,713 genomes of the virus out of a global effort

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boostervaccines; covid19; vaccines
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1 posted on 03/15/2021 6:22:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They are NEVER going to let us be free again.

It’s kill or be-killed time.


2 posted on 03/15/2021 6:23:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Top vaccine scientist is calling on immediate halt to mass vaccinations.

https://rumble.com/vek2vd-a-coming-covid-catastrophe.html


3 posted on 03/15/2021 6:24:32 PM PDT by Captain7seas ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Destroy us instead of destroying China


4 posted on 03/15/2021 6:25:40 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

Ka Ching $!$!


5 posted on 03/15/2021 6:27:16 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 78 to 84 )
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To: SeekAndFind

Those “Experts” again.

What don’t they know?


6 posted on 03/15/2021 6:30:35 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah.....no.


7 posted on 03/15/2021 6:31:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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That is kind of like the seasonal flu vaccine. They just want us to believe COVID is more dangerous. I say BS. I never had a flu vaccine that didn’t give me the flu. Besides, they never know what strain of flu the vaccine is good for. This is more propaganda from the democrat commissars.


8 posted on 03/15/2021 6:34:52 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: SeekAndFind

Vaccine mania !

Get your virus shots regularly, or Big Brother will not be happy.


9 posted on 03/15/2021 6:36:03 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: BrexitBen

Get stars on thars to be the best Sneeches on beaches.

(FauXi = Sylvester McMonkey McBean)


10 posted on 03/15/2021 6:39:16 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

Yup. First flu shots for the last few decades (I never succumbed to a flu shot and never got the flu), now annual Covid shots. If you’re not wearing a mask, you will be ordered to show evidence that you got the current Covid shot. The masses love this crap. They crave being controlled. They prove it by wearing masks in the middle of nowhere, and driving down the highway. These people are pathetic.


11 posted on 03/15/2021 6:40:02 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Our biblical ancestors lived 100+ years without vaccines. Only faith in God and prayer. I think we’ll make it without this absurd vaccine. Unless Bill Gates takes away our meat.


12 posted on 03/15/2021 6:48:08 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

How ¢onvenient for the va¢¢ine manufacturer$.

An endle$$ need for their va¢¢ine$.


13 posted on 03/15/2021 6:54:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well Fauxi’s NIH did just send the Wuhan lab some more money so maybe they’re going to come out with a new flavor every year.


14 posted on 03/15/2021 6:54:58 PM PDT by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: SeekAndFind

The vaccine has been reported to interfere with fertility.

continual vaccines should reduce the world population, as Gates wants.

Not with my swimmers you don’t!


15 posted on 03/15/2021 6:57:16 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this what was said about flu when it was first identified, by what Democrat?


16 posted on 03/15/2021 6:59:48 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Replacing our DNA one little piece at a time?


17 posted on 03/15/2021 7:02:30 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SeekAndFind

But, no, no, no! The FR Vax Pushers have said otherwise....that it’s one (round) and, done.

They’re going to go about their lives, on cruises, flying about, and such.....all thanks to the almighty Gates/FRAUDci experimental jabs.

Only......looks like NOT.


18 posted on 03/15/2021 7:05:46 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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In the context of the video that you provided the link, I'd take these 'Boosters' to be confirmation of the Doctor's fears. I.e., this 'vaccine', given in the midst of a 'pandemic', will just lead to the destruction of the vaccine recipient's natural immune system, and the propagation of a multitude of virus variants (mutations). Thus, the only way to address this problem is to continually administer 'Booster' shots ('Booster' sounds innocuous, but I presume that these are new vaccines with new synthetic antibodies that are required to address the new mutations - since the mRNA vaccine recipients' natural antibodies have now atrophied due them being dominated by the artificial antibodies). And the emphasis is on continually.

A downer video, and I'm hoping he is wrong (or my interpretation of his claim was wrong).
I'm not taking the vaccine - nonetheless, this is a bad outcome that effects everyone (even if you don't take the vaccine, the people who took it have become factories of CoVid mutations - and will pass them along).

19 posted on 03/15/2021 7:08:13 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

A boy and his dog.


20 posted on 03/15/2021 7:20:13 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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