boosters really do ramp up your protection in comparison to just having two vaccination. The other thing we need to talk about is the sort of tea cell response. And the tea cells are going after infected cells, and they seem to be more important for protecting you against the severity of the disease. No one thinks that those measures are going to be enough to stop omacron. For omachronis just too high.
As England moves to plan B, Boris Johnson has announced that all adults will be offered a booster vaccine by the end of December. But will that be enough to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed? Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, about the spread of Omicron, and what we can do to prevent a tidal wave of cases. Help support our independent journalism at
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