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It seems the same Covid-19 vaccine might work differently for different people, depending on which variants of Covid they’ve been exposed to, writes Dr Miriam Stoppard
Three projects designed to build our understanding of viruses and how the immune system reacts to different challenges will share £25m in new funding from UKRI.
A person's immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure - and differences in the focus of immune responses will help scientists understand how to optimize vaccines in the future to provide broad protection.
Scientists always knew a deadly virus was going to jump from animals to humans: COVID was not the first time it has happened, and it won't be the last. Should we be worried about frequent news reports of flu being detected in birds and other animals?