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The researchers have argued that offering people an Omicron-adapted booster shot may be more beneficial than multiple ones with the original vaccines.
>> the rule of thumb that you should have six months between your shots, when ever your last covid shot was whether moderna or johnson & johnson, you are due for a booster, is that the rule of thumb? >> if it's j&j, it's two months after because the j&j likely should have been. moderna and pfizer, six months. the reason it is because we want to give immunity response a chance to mature. by mature, we mean the cells that make the antibodies, as you give them a few months, it gets much stronger. the second question, we don't know. we are hoping that booster shot given the increase - mainly have
Immunity to people who probably did not mountain appropriate immunity response. over time our immunity is decreasing even if you started out with that 93, 94% efficacy. there's a third type of shot that is being discussed, not as publicly, but it's around tailored just another vaccine series, hallie, tailored for variants, which the manufacturers are also work on, different formulation than the first and second doses. once this gets to monica's point about full licensure. people can receive these shots off label. you will likely see unless there's clear guidance, doctors, pharmacists and other...
Astrazeneca vaccine didn't show evidence of effectiveness in the elderly, because they didn't have enough cases. but the immunological data showed that of the immunity response didn't drop off in the elderly. so it's assumed it would be just as effective in older people is in younger people. thank you so much for your time. i know you are a busy man. we will be speaking to the health secretary as well here at half past seven. so many questions as well about how it will be rolled out. lots of guests that granddad subject. in other news, millions more people in england are expected to be moved i...