pembsexile wrote: December 14th, 2021, 9:16 am Just in case people are worried about the need for those (who can) to get the booster vaccine, there is an excellent article on the BBC home page today explaining everything in Layman’s terms. It’s one of the best explanations I have heard and when worth a read if you have the time.

In a nutshell they explain that the first jab is akin to going to Primary school. The second jab is your bodies secondary education and the booster is like University giving specialist knowledge to your body to help fight the virus. A superb analogy I thought. They explain it far better then I can. They explain the extra vaccines allow something called antibody evolution by a process called ‘affinity maturation’. Word (or two word) of the day right there.

They have quoted several specialists to get their information:

Professor Jonathan Ball - Virologist, University of Nottingham
Professor Danny Altman - Immunologist, Imperial College London
Professor Charles Bingham - Imperial College London.

It’s on the BBC home page.