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Experimental COVID-19 vaccine could outsmart future coronavirus variants

Experimental COVID-19 vaccine could outsmart future coronavirus variants

The Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2022

An experimental vaccine aims to solve that problem by priming the immune system to recognize both the spike protein and a second — and far more stable — viral protein. “We think of it as a one-time solution for all the COVID variants,” said Haitao Hu, an immunologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch and senior author of a study describing the vaccine in Wednesday’s edition of the journal Science Translational Medicine.