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Omicron is supercharging the COVID vaccine booster debate

The data are growing that booster jabs enhance protection — but their durability, impact and ability to quash the new variant are unknown.
  1. Elie Dolgin

    1. Elie Dolgin is a science journalist in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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The evidence is in: booster jabs against COVID-19 do provide an extra layer of protection against the illness. But questions still swirl over how much they’ll help and how often they’ll be needed — and the discovery of the Omicron variant has supercharged the debate over their role.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03592-2

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