Immunologists push for increase in testing and more widespread vaccine booster rollout as new variant, XEC, emerges
Experts are pushing for an increase in lateral flow testing and a more widespread rollout of vaccination boosters as the new Covid variant XEC is expected to become prevalent over the winter.Experts are pushing for an increase in lateral flow testing and a more widespread rollout of vaccination boosters as the new Covid variant XEC is expected to become prevalent over the winter.
The percentage of people with symptoms who have tested positive for Covid, based on tests at sentinel “spotter” laboratories, has also risen in the last week to 11.8% compared with 9.1% in the previous week. “Clearly, there is behavioural polarisation between those who are worried by this and look for mitigation, and those who think we must learn live with it and paid too high a price for our earlier measures,” he said.there is also a large group of people who are not thinking much about Covid at all.
Altmann also stressed the impact of long Covid, noting that it is thought to affect around 400 million people globally – with 3% lost workforce and a global cost estimate of $1tn annually – and can arise even in vaccinated people following reinfection.
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