Why You "Need" More-than-One Vaccine-Shot - D'you remember #Booster Shots?

That's discussed at a forum linked through 'the main word' below; but I feel it's more important to understand that word better. And I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the bases of the words you're thinking-of ...

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The word “Booster Shot or -Injection or -Dose” (so called because it makes your body #Boost production of immunological Memory B Cells and T Cells that recognize the virus) is 'the agent noun for "one that #Boosts"' (the young one uses a #BoosterChair or #BoosterSeat at the dinner-table). #BoosterShot #BoosterInjection #BoosterDose

"Boosts" is an American English word ... probably 'expressive' for when one is Lifted or Raised by |Pushing from |Behind (or maybe -from Beneath ... a Shove Upward ... like |Boof! or Bump or |Buff etc.). #Boost #Boosted #Boosting

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The BBC explains how it works

• how the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine's 52%-effectiveness is BOOSTED to 95% by the second injection
• how the Moderna vaccine's 80.2%-effectiveness is BOOSTED to 95.6%
• Oxford-AstraZenaca's 64.1% to 70.4% (or oddly to 90% if the first dose was only a half-dose)