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

Nature

By Sara Reardon

October 14, 2022

Booster shots against current SARS-CoV-2 variants can help the human immune system to fight variants that don’t exist yet.

That’s the implication of two new studies1,2 analysing how a booster shot or breakthrough infection affects antibody-producing cells: some of these cells evolve over time to exclusively create new antibodies that target new strains, whereas others produce antibodies against both new and old strains.

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