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Hi, I'm Sam Hawley, coming to you from Gadigal Land. This is ABC News Daily. As we head into winter, the Government's launched a fresh round of ads urging adults to get their COVID boosters. But there are differing views in the medical field over whether we all need another shot. Today, an epidemiologist on the next wave, and what the latest science says about protection against COVID.
That's highly stochastic. It's like me looking at a rock of uranium and trying to predict which atom in there is going to be the next one to, um, to break down. I know from that rock of uranium what the average half life across all of them is, and I kind of know what the average of COVID does, but it's impossible to say when the next variant is going to come up and whether it will be more virulent, less virulent.
As we head into winter, the federal government has launched a fresh round of ads urging adults to get their COVID boosters.Today, an epidemiologist on the next wave, and what the latest science says about protection against COVID.
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