Covid-19 responses shift gear.

In the face of waning immunity and an ever-evolving virus, it is clear that herd immunity won't be possible anywhere without better vaccines. "I think we've seen over the last year that the current vaccination strategy alone isn't sufficient to keep covid at bay,"' says Kit Yates at the University of Bath, UK. Review of the year WITH vaccinations lowering covid-19 death rates, many countries chose to end almost all other measures to control the spread of the coronavirus in 2022 - but the virus is still causing waves of illness worldwide. [Extracted from the article]

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