When the next pandemic hits, scientists aim to have a vaccine already. Here's how

February 12, 2021 09:01 UTC

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When the next pandemic hits, scientists aim to have a vaccine already. Here's how

His team has just started human trials of its COVID-19 vaccine. Creating a more universal coronavirus vaccine, or pan-coronavirus vaccine, that will protect against multiple different strains. Burton Lim, who is working with Western University researchers to create a bank of bat coronavirus vaccines, should know. (Burton Lim/Royal Ontario Museum)Each coronavirus has a unique "spike" protein that it uses to enter and infect cells. (VIDO-InterVac/University of Saskatchewan)It's not unlike the process traditionally used to make live, "attenuated" or weakened virus vaccines.

Source: CBC News February 12, 2021 09:01 UTC

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