Originally Posted by
Mesabah
In his latest interview, he says they stand ready to deploy an update for the variants in as little as 90 days. Does anyone think they aren't going to provide a yearly prime/booster update? That's an annual shot dose, variant primer dose, and then the booster dose 6-8 months later.
It was always well within the scope of reasonable reality that this thing would become endemic and require periodic vaccine updates. Just like the flu but most likely less often. Since previous vaccination will generally confer *some* longer-term immunity even across variants, it's unlikely that you'd need a full three-dose regimen each year... more likely an annual booster that's updated as required for any new variants.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health...9-flu-vaccine/
The end game isn't stamping it out, it's finding the balance point where we can live with. Since it's more political than the flu, that balance point might be different than for the flu although eventually it should all settle out. At some point covid hysteria won't be fun and exciting any more.