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Race for the next generation of Covid-19 vaccines

What’s in the pipeline?

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Katelyn Jetelina and Andrea Tamayo
Apr 16, 2024
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We could definitely use better Covid-19 vaccines. While our current ones work well against severe disease, they could be better in other departments, like:

  • Stopping transmission 

  • Covering future mutations 

  • Having fewer side effects

  • Ability to combine with other vaccines, like the flu vaccine

A suite of vaccines—considered next-generation (NextGen)—are in the…

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