In case you missed it ..8 Mar 2021 20:29
Here’s a piece from the article I posted this afternoon ...
“ Vaccines and vaccine education will ultimately be the best way to fend off the emergence of new deadly variants of COVID-19. But until such programs can take root, governments and international health organizations must set up a far-reaching surveillance and reporting system to monitor changes in the virus, as the United Kingdom has done effectively. Researchers are already trying to expand the protection that current vaccines offer. But they must also look to developing second- and third-generation vaccines to contend with variants as they emerge. This coronavirus may well become endemic—much like influenza, which spreads each winter, sometimes with a new variant that reaches epidemic or pandemic proportions before it eventually attenuates into a less fearsome seasonal strain. The next generation of COVID-19 vaccines might therefore be multivalent—that is, able to combat more than one variant. Ultimately, researchers should aim to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine that would target the pieces of the virus particle that all variants share. To get there may require an effort on the level of the Manhattan Project—but such labor will be well justified if it can neutralize the devastating potential of the virus’s mutations.”
Take care all ..