London (UK) – Even while the COVID-19 booster doses are essential in the near term to tackle the Omicron variant, Britain’s chief scientific adviser stated on Tuesday that giving them every 3 to 6 months is not sustainable in the long run.
“It would be a situation that isn’t tenable to say everyone’s going to need to be having another vaccine every three or six months. That’s not the long-term view of where this goes to,” Patrick Vallance said at a news conference, adding that annual booster shots against COVID-19 might be necessary, similar to flu shots.
“We needed to get boosted for this variant at this moment. So I think there’ll be a change over time and this will settle into a much more routine type of vaccine programme.”