Booster jab gives a 'different kind of protection': Catherine Bennett
Deakin University’s Chair of Epidemiology Professor Catherine Bennett says the booster COVID vaccine gives you a “different type of protection”. “What’s different with the booster, that gives you a different kind of protection, we think it’s more sustained,” Professor Bennett told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “Importantly, it’s not just about boosting protection against serious illness, which is really important, but it’s also about reducing a risk of symptomatic infection, and the data out of the UK suggest that might be as much as 60, 70 per cent. “So, in fact, the booster gives you a different type of protection; that's why we’re really encouraging people to look at the booster; it does protect you from infection.”
Deakin University’s Chair of Epidemiology Professor Catherine Bennett says the booster COVID vaccine gives you a “different type of protection”. “What’s different with the booster, that gives you a different kind of protection, we think it’s more sustained,” Professor Bennett told Sky News host Chris Kenny. “Importantly, it’s not just about boosting protection against serious illness, which is really important, but it’s also about reducing a risk of symptomatic infection, and the data out of the UK suggest that might be as much as 60, 70 per cent. “So, in fact, the booster gives you a different type of protection; that's why we’re really encouraging people to look at the booster; it does protect you from infection.”