Your immune system has a memory, which can be both a good and bad thing.
When it comes to COVID-19 boosters, scientists at Washington University recently discovered that the body isn鈥檛 just "remembering" its previous vaccines 鈥� it uses that memory to fight viruses it hasn't met yet.
On this episode of St. Louis on the Air, Dr. Michael Diamond, lead author of a new study in discussed the workings of vaccine 鈥渋mprinting鈥� and what his lab鈥檚 research can tell us about the future of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.
Among other findings, that research adds to evidence that boosters not only protect people from the variants existing at the time, but also 鈥渙nes that we anticipate in the future, that might come with a new pandemic virus if it ever occurred,鈥� said Diamond.
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