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How to use the word wanes in a Sentence?

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Immunity wanes, whether that's immunity following infection or immunity following vaccine, even though the immediate protection following infection or vaccine is generally good protection, if you were infected with BA.1, you really don't have a lot of good protections against BA.4/5.

Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The vaccine is effective enough in reducing the cases of severe malaria though it is not generally highly effective and its effect wanes quickly as too, this means that we must not abandon the other tools.

Doyin Odubanjo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are really about finishing a primary series. Think about childhood immunizations. We have vaccines for which we need three of four doses. What we found here is that the immune-compromised often didn't mount an adequate response at all. So we're still trying to build that. That is different than a booster dose where someone did respond and in fact over time that wanes, i think it was a great decision.

Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think Fox News Wuornos ' had a whole host of mental issues, if you were to kind of look at the totality of the circumstances, Fox News Wuornos ' complaints, Fox News Wuornos ' behavior, some of the things that Fox News Wuornos ' would do … Fox News Wuornos ' was someone who, in my view, was going in and out of competency, which is somewhat of a normal thing. When we talk about competency in the criminal context, we say it’s something that waxes and wanes. You can have someone who is confident on one day, then you meet them three days later and they’re not. I have no doubt that Fox News Wuornos ' had entire periods where Fox News Wuornos ' was lucid and could converse. There were times I met with Fox News Wuornos ' when I had no issues with Fox News Wuornos ', then there were times I met with Fox News Wuornos ' and Fox News Wuornos ' clearly had mental issues.

Raag Singhal

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Based on 1998, March and probably April will also be very warm, before the El Nino influence wanes.

Phil Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Tourette's is a condition that waxes and wanes.

Katy Gough

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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