COVID infections are at their lowest point in more than a year, but the virus may be evolving to a seasonal pattern similar to influenza, and protection from previous inoculations may be starting to wane
I read in the news that health officials are urging Canadians to get another COVID vaccine booster this fall. COVID seems to have virtually disappeared. So, why do we need another shot?It’s true that COVID-19 infections have gone way down during the summer. They’re at their lowest point in more than a year, based on viral levels in municipal wastewater, andAs temperatures cool we tend to congregate indoors where it’s easier for respiratory illnesses to spread.
The virus may now be evolving into a seasonal pattern similar to influenza in which “transmission tends to decrease in the warmer months and you have an uptick in cases in the cooler months,” said Dr. Razak, who is also an internal medicine physician at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. And, unfortunately for us, the south has had “a particularly grim flu season and they have also had a lot of COVID,” noted Dr. Bowdish.National Advisory Committee on Immunization recently recommended a booster shotAlthough vaccines have been highly effective in reducing the number of hospital stays and deaths, this tends to wane after about six months, said Dr. Razak.
Dr. Bowish agrees with the recommendation to stop targeting the original strain because “it’s now extinct.” Essentially, it has been outcompeted and replaced by subsequent variants ranging from Alpha to Omicron. For the vaccine campaign to succeed, public health officials “will have to make it as easy as possible to get a shot,” said Dr. Rasmussen. “For example, they could allow people to receive their booster at the same time as their seasonal flu vaccine.”
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