Do we need COVID vaccine boosters? - a podcast by ABC Radio

As if getting hold of your first two jabs wasn't hard enough, now there's talk you'll need a third.

Less than a fifth of the Australian population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but the Government has already signed contracts for tens of millions of booster doses, to top up our immunity as soon as next year.

The thing is, there's no concrete evidence yet about when or even whether we'll definitely need them.

Today on The Signal, we're exploring the incomplete science on COVID vaccine boosters.

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Professor Peter Collignon, Infectious diseases physician, Microbiologist and Professor of Infectious Diseases, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra

Associate Professor Nick Wood, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney and Lead, NSW Immunisation Specialist Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney

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