Berlin “Urgently needed” – that’s what three of the most important virologists in the USA, including the pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci, called their call for the development of a “universal” corona vaccine at the end of December.
The vaccine not only has to protect against the five previously known, particularly worrying variants of Sars-Cov-2, alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omicron, which have so far been involved in the deaths of a total of five million people. Rather, it should also work against future variants and possibly even against more distantly related corona viruses, the researchers write in the New England Medical Journal: “We need a research approach that takes the global ‘coronavirus universe’ and the origin and pathogenesis of corona viruses in laboratory animals and characterize in humans and use that information to design broadly protective, ‘universal’ vaccines.”
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