U.S. NEWS - Genetics-based “one-and-done” vaccines for the flu and COVID could prove more effective and easier to craft than current jabs, researchers report.
These new vaccines would target viruses using a different response to infection than what is prompted by current vaccines, researchers said.
“What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said researcher Rong Hai, a virologist with University of California, Riverside. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus and safe for a broad spectrum of people.”
“This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for,” Hai added in a university news release.