Boosters for variants—UK 🇬🇧 has now ordered 60 million more doses to support a COVID-19 booster vaccination programme starting in the autumn, with Health Minister Hancock adding that the biggest risk to 🇬🇧 rollout so far was a new variant. #COVID19
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2) "We're working on our plans for booster shots," Hancock said.
"These further 60 million doses will be used, alongside others, as part of our booster programme from later this year, so we can protect the progress that we've all made."
"These further 60 million doses will be used, alongside others, as part of our booster programme from later this year, so we can protect the progress that we've all made."
3) “Earlier on Wednesday, Public Health England said the details of any booster programme were still being worked out, and it would be designed primarily with new variants in mind.
4) Britain’s health ministry said data from trials using different combinations of COVID-19 vaccines would help determine the design of the programme.
5) England's Deputy Chief Medic Jonathan Van-Tam said that by mid to late-summer, millions of people would have had two shots of either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines, and the question then would be whether to give a different vaccine as a booster.
6) if we don’t get the damn pandemic under control, we might have to do booster whack a mole against variants like UK 🇬🇧 is doing it.
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