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Push for COVID-19 booster vaccines as Australia heads into 'uncertain' winter | canberratimes.com.au
"With each wave of infection, even if you're not infected, you're brushing up against exposures in the community.
"It means with each wave, there's been a bit more resilience, a bit more of a mature immune protection across the community." - Professor Catherine Bennett said 🤦♂️
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But no such variants have caught their attention. JN. 1 remains Australia's dominant variant based on wastewater reports from NSW and Victoria. A long break from a JN.1 COVID-19 peak could mean people are susceptible to reinfection with the variant, Professor Bennett said. She recommends a booster shot for those who haven't been infected with COVID or vaccinated for more than six months to improve immune response. "Over the next two to four weeks is the right time because it can take a couple of weeks to get the benefit of a booster," Professor Bennett said. Virus management continues Surveillance systems and strong public health communication remains crucial as people learn to live with the endemic virus, the chair of epidemiology said. "Health departments will let people know when the risk is starting to shift again," she said. "Knowing that information is really powerful, it gives people the opportunity then to respond to that change in their own risk situation," she said. "It's possibly about the variants themselves becoming slightly less severe but a lot of it is about the population immunity," she said. "With each wave of infection, even if you're not infected, you're brushing up against exposures in the community. "It means with each wave, there's been a bit more resilience, a bit more of a mature immune protection across the community."
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