Should you get a covid vaccine booster shot if you're offered one?

As the UK and US embark on large-scale coronavirus vaccine booster programmes, the evidence so far suggests it is a good idea to get a booster shot if you are offered one

Should you get a covid vaccine booster shot if you're offered one?
Health 29 September 2021

By Graham Lawton

A caregiver  (L) prepares to administer a Pfizer booster vaccine to astatine  a vaccination centre successful  Derby, cardinal  England connected  September 20, 2021. - Frontline wellness  and societal  attraction   workers, older radical   and the clinically susceptible  successful  Britain started connected  Monday to person   a booster jab against Covid 19. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

A booster vaccine being fixed successful Derby, UK, past week

Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

OVER the adjacent fewer months, astir 30 cardinal afloat vaccinated radical successful the UK volition beryllium invited to person a 3rd dose of a covid-19 vaccine. The astonishment determination to tally specified a ample booster run – everyone implicit 50 is included – was made disconnected the back of aggregate lines of evidence, nary of them definitive. So what is the rationale down it? And if you are offered a booster, should you instrumentality it?

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