Ending a virus that we have no sterilizing vaccines for and which might have an animal reservoir; don't merely need vaccine mandates but VaaS mandates.
To my knowledge no booster is approved for use within 6 months of another shot, and 6 months is overkill unless you're extremely high risk, e.g. in the "still wiping down door dash deliveries with bleach wipes" kind of high risk.
> To my knowledge no booster is approved for use within 6 months of another shot
Government recommends booster after five to six months in my country. To clarify, they do not yet recommend boosters to the end of time, just a booster after the second.
> 6 months is overkill unless you're extremely high risk
They're recommending mRNA boosters 2 months after the J&J or AZ shots, and the CDC recommendation is now 6 months for everyone who got the 2-dose mRNA.
"All adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 vaccine doses three months after their second shot, the government indicated on Monday, in a dramatic acceleration of the country's inoculation drive that comes amid fears over the Omicron variant."
If the current state of Covid is not acceptable and it is determined that the disease needs to be eradicated, these vaccines aren't enough. We will have to start elimination of reservoir animal colonies near human civilization at a global scale. Go into bat habitats with flamethrowers. The vaccines are too leaky and another mutation in a animal population and we are back where we started.
Although, if it was a lab leak and we didn't have a animal population to worry about we could save a lot of animals. We could also accept that it's now endemic.
It's a bit weird to jump to "flamethrowers in the jungle" instead of "second-generation vaccines", isn't it?
It's definitely able to get into animals. That's been known since nearly the beginning; quite a few zoos lost animals to it. Lab leak or not doesn't really change that calculus at all.
I mean, we sorta went right to "lock down the entire economy" so I figure that's the next logical step. I personally feel both measures are a bit of a overeaction. Preparing for a endemic seasonal disease like the flu is more sensible to me, with a focus on early detection and treatment.