Giving people a booster jab every few months to combat new variants and waning protection is not “plausible”, a vaccine expert has said. Dr Anne Moore, a University College Cork vaccine specialist, said the rollout of a fourth dose is likely in the coming months as the UK considers an additional dose for older people and Israel offers the second booster shot to healthcare workers. Sponsored“We need more data on the variant and also on the vaccine,” Moore said. “When you give the same vaccine every few months it will begin to plateau and we don’t know when that is so it isn’t plausible. Maybe we need a fourth vaccine against Omicron, but beyond that we don’t know much else.”She added: “If this is

Source: The Times December 24, 2021 20:36 UTC