Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas...
by graywh on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:53AM
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isn't the flu vaccine just a cocktail of existing vaccines tailored to the strains we predict will be active?
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Re:Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme diseas...
by Spellman on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:12AM
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Sort of.
It's a cocktail of vaccines against the expected dominant strains based on data of strains in the opposite hemisphere because it mutates too quickly to produce a targeted vaccine against any specific strain before it arrives.
But I believe they can develop the vaccine fresh as new strains arrive, as well as reuse previous vaccine strains.