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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
In theory, there's plenty of time between identifying a new strain and mitigating against that strain with a booster. e.g. the "concerning strains" so far were all identified several months ago and have as yet not shown signs of becoming dominant, other than the "UK strain" which the current vaccines, it seems at this point, are effective against. So basically it's not like a mutation appears and then all of a sudden is causing thousands of deaths; with the base vaccine in place, you have time to tweak & roll out before it even gets a foothold. This is essentially how annual Flu vaccination works (identifying the upcoming strain and intervening).
Really it's all dependant on how good/quick we are at "catching" new mutations, but it's likely there'll be dedicated labs basically doing that full time for the foreseeable future.
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