The U.S. government is aggressively pursuing a pan-coronavirus vaccine that would work equally well against any COVID-19 variant.
Dr. Jen Ashton has the latest on research into a vaccine that could be used against a future coronavirus., vaccine makers raced to design a shot that perfectly matched the new virus's genetic code. Their efforts were successful, resulting in highly effective vaccines in record time.
"Since September of 2020 there have been five SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern -- alpha, beta, gamma, delta and now, the current, omicron," Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a White House task force briefing Wednesday."So, obviously, innovative approaches are needed.
Several research groups are already working on a pan-coronavirus vaccine, including scientists at the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, University of Washington, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 are pictured at a booster clinic for 12- to 17-year-olds in Lansdale, Pa., Jan. 9, 2022.
But scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are arguably the furthest along. The Army vaccine appears to work well in monkeys, and is now being tested for safety in a phase 1 study in human volunteers.last year, ABC News' Bob Woodruff spoke to a team of Army scientists hopeful that their vaccine candidate would work not only against COVID-19 variants, but also against related coronaviruses, like those that caused the SARS-1 and MERS outbreaks in 2003 and 2012, respectively.
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