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Omicron boosters could arm you against variants that don’t yet exist

Worries that the immune system would get ‘stuck’ on the original SARS-CoV-2 strain are dispelled by laboratory experiments.
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Booster shots against current SARS-CoV-2 variants can help the human immune system to fight variants that don’t exist yet.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03119-3

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