More Than Just Two Doses Needed—Australia’s Covid-19 Vaccine Nightmare
Adam Parker
Posted on April 14, 2021
There’s an urban myth that when it comes to painting Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge once you start you never stop. While that’s not completely true, painting does conform to a schedule. That’s how you stop the rust and rot. And it’s a simile only now being thrust on the world in the vaccine fight against Covid-19. Earlier this week the New England Journal of Medicine published long-term efficacy numbers for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. It told us that while both drugs produced good antibodies against infection, that protection only lasted six months after their second dose. In other words, a person fully immunised today would be covered against serious Covid-19 infection but only till October this year. Thing is, nobody is…
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