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US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say
Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.
The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020. Very early on, Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch decided to focus on making a vaccine that would work against not just the existing strain but all of its potential variants as well.
Walter Reed’s Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials, which tested the vaccine against Omicron and the other variants, wrapped up this month, again with positive results that are undergoing final review, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, said in an exclusive interview with Defense One. The new vaccine will still need to undergo phase 2 and phase 3 trials.
Unlike existing vaccines, Walter Reed’s SpFN uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces for its vaccine, which allows scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains on different faces of the protein.
The vaccine’s human trials took longer than expected, he said, because the lab needed to test the vaccine on subjects who had neither been vaccinated nor previously infected with COVID.
The vaccine is designed on a new platform called "self-assembling protein nanoparticle."
According to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine on Thursday, SpFN protected non-human primates from disease caused by the original variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Two doses given 28 days apart also triggered strong immune responses against Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants.
Results from very early clinical trials of SpFN in humans, called Phase 1, are expected to be released "this month," the Army said in the press release.
originally posted by: ColoradoTemplar
Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.
would be a dumb thing for even Joe Biden to say in a gaffe.
to know it works on "future strains", would be a dumb thing for even Joe Biden to say in a gaffe.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: ColoradoTemplar
Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.
I have never claimed to be a smart man, I have made mistakes. But even my limited intellect is able to discern the problem with this statement.
The only way this could be known, is if the same people who made this new vaccine, made the virus. Otherwise, to know it works on "future strains", would be a dumb thing for even Joe Biden to say in a gaffe.
Is this why nobody is interested in finding the facts of the origins of Covid? We knew before it even started?
Two doses given 28 days apart also triggered strong immune responses against Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: ColoradoTemplar
Well if it gives them supposed immunity to all future variants, I say to all vaxxed folks run don't walk to get it!
Then you can finally feel truly "safe" and you can leave the unvaxxed TF alone.
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: ColoradoTemplar
Sounds like big dangerous trouble to me.
Might be why they pushed those fast tracked inefficient vaccines so hard.
I have a very dear friend who dutifully got both shots and the booster, and got so sick with Covid, he almost ended up in the hospital.
I have a family member who is presently recovering from COVID, they also had both shots, and the booster.
All of this, and then the military steps in and saves the day.
Didn't they make a movie about something like that?