Dr. Anthony Fauci can’t say whether people will need annual COVID-19 COVID-19 boosters, a question being posed by many as new variants …
Dr. Anthony Fauci can’t say whether people will need annual COVID-19 boosters, a question being posed by many as new variants of the coronavirus, like Omicron, arise. “It’s tough to tell,” Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said during an interview Sunday on ABC News “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that besides an increased level of protection against the coronavirus, a booster could increase the durability of the immune system’s protection, which won’t be measurable for a “period of months.