Army scientists develop COVID-19 vaccine protecting against 'known and unknown' variants

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Army scientists develop COVID-19 vaccine protecting against 'known and unknown' variants
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
 | December 21, 2021 09:16 PM

Army scientists are developing a vaccine they say offers protection against all variants of COVID-19, present and future.

Researchers at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are expected to make an announcement about the Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine, or SpFN, in the coming weeks, according to Defense One.

The report said the vaccine uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces, allowing scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains to different faces of the protein, and is believed to also be effective against previous SARS-origin viruses.

“We decided to take a look at the long game rather than just only focusing on the original emergence of SARS, and instead understand that viruses mutate, there will be variants that emerge, future viruses that may emerge in terms of new species. Our platform and approach will equip people to be prepared for that," Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s infectious diseases branch, told the news outlet.

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[Hoodat]

The report said the vaccine uses a soccer ball-shaped protein with 24 faces, allowing scientists to attach the spikes of multiple coronavirus strains to different faces of the protein,

That isn't a vaccine.  The virus itself is never addressed.

[Kamaji]

It can't provide protection against future variants without further adjustment to, or tinkering with, the protein structures, because there is no way to know a priori what a future variant's targeted protein might look like.

[Hoodat]

It can't provide protection against future variants without further adjustment to, or tinkering with, the protein structures, because there is no way to know a priori what a future variant's targeted protein might look like.

Unless they are the ones making the variants.

[Kamaji]

Unless they are the ones making the variants.

Only if they are the only source of new variants in that case.  Otherwise, so long as the virus is capable of mutating in the wild, there will be new variants not generated by them that their multi-vaccine cannot take into account.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Unless they are the ones making the variants.